LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Staverton Road: gcrsr27

LNER 4-6-0 Class B17/4 No 2855 'Middlesborough' crosses Staverton Road at speed on a down express in June 1939. Built at Darlington in April 1936 No 2855 was renumbered in 1946 by the LNER as No 1655 and again by British Railways post 1948 as No 61655 which it retained until April 1959 when it was withdrawn from Cambridge shed.

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