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I know this is an LMS-designed engine but the stock is LNER design and suggestions a while back were that this image is on either a joint line or ex-LNER line.

Any suggestions as to the location, please?

42104_OCT-64 by robertcwp, on Flickr

This is a close-up of the signal in the left background, which appears to have a distant below the home:



The only clue as to the date is that the slide mount has a processing date of October 1964.

42104 was allocated to 6C Croes Newydd in October 1964 but had been on the SR in 1959.

Looks like it is on an embankment crossing either a road or other railway. Going by the covered steps at the building end on the right.

there appears to be a blue station sign just to the right of the smoke box.also the chimney on the right shows part of a tv arieal as a vertical cross which area used them like that

The train would seem to be on the "down" line as the arms on the telegraph pole look as if they are on the far side

that blue sign appears now to be part of the top of the bay window. but the two notice boards apppear to be something like this font colour

Boris wrote:The train would seem to be on the "down" line as the arms on the telegraph pole look as if they are on the far side

Did the pole route always run on the Down side on all lines?

I don't know the location but surely that decorative barge board should jog someones memory banks.

Don't know about the pole route being on the Down side but the arms on the poles were always on the side nearest to London or the Up side if cross country.

Plus the station must be sort of on a bridge looking at the steps down the side of the buildings and the houses are lower than the station

Here is a close-up of a telegraph pole and the signs on the building, not that they seem to help much:

Also the telegraph pole appears to be square, station still gas lit, the office sign background looks brown, telephone sign blue, that bargebaord reminds me of the pattern on the gables of paddington..

what does that poster on the right advertise? Day Trips to....Holt? Hope?

adge wrote:what does that poster on the right advertise? Day Trips to....Holt? Hope?

Unfortunately not legible even on the full size high-resolution scan.

Hmm.

I wonder - are we looking at somewhere in Wales? The poster boards appear to be maroon but the door is painted a faded pale green. Possibly primer? There also seems to be a lack of station signage. This would suggest to me that the painters were in. 1964? About that time a lot of ex-GWR lines in North Wales in particular were transferred from WR to LMR control so that date feels right as well. Possibly Central Wales. I know North Wales pretty well but those bargeboards ring no bells for me.

I have now been advised that this is Hadley on the Shropshire Union Railway so not LNER territory after all.

adge wrote:what does that poster on the right advertise? Day Trips to....Holt? Hope?

When enlarged, it looks more like Holt than Hope.