4472 (1969)

[Hermit 109]

For those fans who can't get enough, I attach some shots of 4472 in the livery she was carrying in 1969. For some reason, the second tender was regarded as a train, therefore provision had to be made for a guard, hence the brakevan.

[StevieG]

Thanks v.m. Hermit 109 !

I detect, from background detail, these were all taken around Finsbury Park Depot/'Clarence Yard' / Fins.Pk. No.2 signal box.

[Hermit 109]

Stevie, you're bang on with the location but I can't remember the occasion. I can identify loco inspector Bill Tumbridge and fireman Alan Ramage and I'm almost sure I can see John Hill as the driver standing by the tender. He was the driver on the 1968 non-stop run leaving King's Cross. I'm going by the date on the slide which is 1969, but that's when the film was processed so the pictures could have been earlier.

[Mickey]

4472 made a number of runs down & up the ECML around 1968/69 i saw her going through WGC on about three separate occasions going down road and one coming up road. Sometime around the summer of 1969 i had a ride behind her as part of a school party to YORK. The train hauled by 4472 made a stop at WGC to pick us up, i would like to know the exact date in 1969 that this trip to YORK occured?.

[brsince78]

For those fans who can't get enough, I attach some shots of 4472 in the livery she was carrying in 1969. For some reason, the second tender was regarded as a train, therefore provision had to be made for a guard, hence the brakevan.

I understand that a brake van was used during light engine movements to allow a look-out to signal to the driver if necessary. There is a photograph of the loco, two tenders, and brake van, backing into Norwich in May 1967, in the original Ian Allan book "Flying Scotsman" published in 1969.

[61070]

Sometime around the summer of 1969 i had a ride behind her as part of a school party to YORK. The train hauled by 4472 made a stop at WGC to pick us up, i would like to know the exact date in 1969 that this trip to YORK occured?.

Micky - if you go to http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/ht1969.html you'll find a list of railtours that took place in 1969. Hopefully the one you were on will be in there. If it was a schools trip it might not be though.

[Mickey]

Thanks 61070 i've just seen your posting. I can't find the trip behind 4472 that i referred to in the summer of 1969 to YORK and now i am not sure if it may have been in 1968 instaed?. I always assumed that the trip took place in 1969?.

[GateGhost]

It is nice to see a good photo of Flying Scotsman from the 60's when she had two tenders.