60022 Mallard 'Northern Rubber Special' Blackpool 1961

[neildimmer]

Evening All

I have added a collection of pre 1968 photos of 60022 Mallard

including these colour photos by Tony Gillett taken at Blackpool North mpd on 30/9/61
Make what you want of the headboard ‘Northern Rubber Special’
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/ ... /i-MPCT5tP
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/ ... /i-mGDzsWL
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/ ... /i-mZXCc8p
on this day 40 specials ran to Blackpool (http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/610930.html)

other photos all from the East Coast main line

60022 in the snow at Kings Cross
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/ ... /i-kJkFg4R
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/ ... /i-DnpkPmn
to
60022 on the Flying Scotsman at Newcastle
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/ ... /i-VzjCbwj

and this photo of 2 A4 cabs & a Peppercorn A1 cab. 60022/60030 & 60115 Doncaster works maybe?
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/ ... /i-vWgHDT9

Neil

[strang steel]

Northern Rubber Co., Victoria Works, Retford.

Those interested can read a little more here - http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Northern_Rubber_Co

[harvester]

I remember Mallard well on the Northern Rubber Special . It was booked a scheduled stop at Sowerby Bridge to take on water and watched by a very large crowd which surrounding the locomotive blocked both up and down lines.

[v3man]

At the time Alan Pegler, of Flying Scotsman fame, was chairman of Northern Rubber Company and this was a speial arranged by him for his employees.