MY LIFE IN TRAINS
Lineside and Station Sequences
Part Four
An Hour at Potters Bar – 4 October 1959
On 4 October I made the familiar journey by bus to New Barnet, then by train to Potters Bar, and spent about an hour around the station before heading back to New Barnet and home. Still plenty of steam, but the diesels were definitely starting to take over.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
12:43 LNER A4 4-62 No 60034 'Lord Faringdon' passes the new signal box at Potters Bar on a northbound express on 4 October 1959.
12:54 Replacements for GN N2 0-6-2T and Gresley Quadart sets, a pair of Cravens 2 car DMUs, with E51265 and E56420 leading,
head towards Potters Bar bound for Kings Cross on 4 October 1959.
12:59 The North British Type 2s didn't last long on the Kings Cross suburban services - here is D6109 heading north from Potters Bar on 4 October 1959.
13:10 LNER A2/3 4-6-2 No 60522 'Straight Deal' hauls an up class D freight towards Potters Bar on 4 October 1959.
13:13 LNER A3 4-6-2 No 60106 'Flying Fox' heads a down express through Potters Bar on 4 October 1959.
13:50 Taken from our DMU heading back to New Barnet, BRCW Type 2 No D5318 heads a down freight towards Potters Bar on 4 October 1959.
