Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 52, 2013

Down Christmas parcels train at Didcot in 1957
Down Christmas parcels train at Didcot in 1957

The down Christmas Parcels train passes Didcot station with unusual locomotive on 24 December 1957. The train is headed by No. 4703, one of the Churchward 4700 class 2-8-0s normally employed at night on fast freight trains.

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