HOME | DD
County1006 — Standard Five
#engine #steam #train #uk #vapeur #swanley #73096 #dampflok #loco #locomotive #britishrailways
Published: 2018-03-10 12:15:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 1354; Favourites: 75; Downloads: 0
Redirect to original
Description
British Railways Class 5 4-6-0 No. 73096 passes the site of Bournewood Sidings, east of St Mary Cray, Kent, on the 11.50 Victoria - Canterbury West, June 30, 2004. For some reason they restored 73096 with the inset type of tender as attached to earlier number series rather than the high sided tender attached to 73096 when in service.This bridge across the line just west of Swanley station was a good vantage point for photography until the powers that be covered it with mesh to prevent suicides (not that I remember any). Some enterprising souls cut holes in the mesh but it was never the same.......
Related content
Comments: 17
Cheers dear friend, we must speak when I can stop coughing!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks John! I'll call when I am able to speak without coughing!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Gosh, you really know your trains!
We also have lots of fences and steel railings on our bridges. But that's not against suicide, it's against people being thrown off!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
probably they had a more restorable tender of that series?. They did a good job on it
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Or preferred this original shape!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Someimes that's worth more than 600% historical accuracy
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Nice photo 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks! Well yes, I like it that way too and have modelled it in this guise. My suspicion is that this tender type was chosen to give a more 'original' look. I think she has ben running with it now for longer than when she had her BR1C type in BR service
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It wouldn't suprise me if she has been
👍: 0 ⏩: 1