LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Staverton Road: gcrcs28

LNER 4-6-0 class B17 /4 No 2860 'Hull City' is throwing out a lot of unburnt coal as can be seen from the smoke as it accelerates away with a Marylebone to Leicester stopping train. In the immediate post war period quality coal was reserved for the prestige workings only so the smoke may in fact reflect the use of 'slack' which was basically pieces of gravel sized coal. C1946 .

Built at Darlington in June 1936 it acquired the BR running number 61660 before its withdrawal from March shed in June 1960, the same month it was scrapped at Stratford Works. C1946

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