S.D. Holden B12 On Highland Main Line

[neildimmer]

A loco well away from its home operating base
1535 Moy on a Troop Train Highland Main Line November 1939 S.D. Holden B12
https://railway-photography.smugmug.com ... /i-9kCfgV2

Neil

[jwealleans]

Not as far as you might think - quite a few B12s went to Scotland under the LNER.

They did range far and wide in the First War on troop trains; I'm not so sure they were as widespread in the Second.

[smudger]

Is that Moy the coal merchant rather than Moy station? The buildings in the background don't look like those at Moy.
If it's a Thomas Moy coal depot it could be somewhere in East Anglia.

Alan

[Darryl Tooley]

That would certainly make the rolling stock easier to explain.

D

[JASd17]

Is that Moy the coal merchant rather than Moy station? The buildings in the background don't look like those at Moy.
If it's a Thomas Moy coal depot it could be somewhere in East Anglia.
Alan

I suggest the location is Colchester, with a down train.

To what does the '1535' in the title refer? If it is the loco number the date cannot be 1939.

John

[Darryl Tooley]

There has also been a discussion of this photo on the LNER Society's facebook page. David Goodyear has just posted a photograph there which demonstrates fairly convincingly that it is indeed Colchester. Also the silhouette of the station is an exact match for that on the photo of 1829 which we discussed a while back - I should really have spotted that.

D