Midland Railway Centre steam, 2012

30 photos of locos, coaches and cranes. Some of the photos were taken in 2007, but all the stock was still at Swanwick in 2012.

LMS dynamometer car No 1 (45050), Swanwick Junction 1: 24 June 2007. Built by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Rly at Newton Heath in 1913, and n use into BR days. Most famously, it was used on the record-breaking London - Glasgow - London test runs of 6201 Princess Elizabeth in November 1936. Here it is seen with restoration in progress by the Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust...

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LMS dynamometer car No 1 (45050), Swanwick Junction 1: 24 June 2007. Built by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Rly at Newton Heath in 1913, and n use into BR days. Most famously, it was used on the record-breaking London - Glasgow - London test runs of 6201 Princess Elizabeth in November 1936. Here it is seen with restoration in progress by the Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust...

LMS coach 45050 Dynamometer car Midland Railway Centre photos Swanwick Junction

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