MY LIFE IN TRAINS
Lineside and Station Sequences
Part Seven
Duck Lees Lane Crossing, Ponders End – 6 February 1960
My next trip, just over a month later, was much closer to home. Duck Lees Lane was about half a mile further out of London from Ponders End on the Great Eastern line to Hertford, Cambridge and beyond – an easy walk from the bus stop at Ponders End station, and with good vantage points in both directions.
My records show that the weather was bright and cloudy with occasional hazy sunlight, but this was a February afternoon and light fades fast on February afternoons! All of this group of photos are ‘atmospheric’ - misty, grainy, grimy, call it what you want. I quite like them.
In all I took thirteen photographs in just under two hours, with the longest gap just twenty five minutes.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
13:30 LNER L1 2-6-4T No 67731 on a down stopping passenger train at Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
13:34 LMSR Ivatt 4 2-6-0 No 43151 heads south on a stopping passenger train at Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
13:40 Brush Class 2 (later Class 31) No D5563 heads an up express from Kings Lynn to Liverpool Street at Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End
on 6 February 1960.
13:46 LNER N7/3 0-6-2T No 69707 on a down stopping passenger train at Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
14:07 GER J19 0-6-0 No 64656 heads an up Lea Valley line class K freight towards Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
14:12 LNER L1 2-6-4T No 67739 on a down stopping passenger train at Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
14:08 LNER B17/6 4-6-0 No 61608 'Gunton', a B17/1 rebuilt with a B1 100A boiler, heads a southbound express at Duck Lees Lane crossing
near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
14:40 GER J15 0-6-0 No 65361 runs light engine towards Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End on the Lea Valley line on 6 February 1960.
14:45 Brush Class 2 (later Class 31) No D5579, the Golden Ochre Wonder, heads a down Cambridge express at Duck Lees Lane crossing
near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
14:50 Emerging from the winter mists of the Lea Valley north of Ponders End station on 6 February 1960 on a freight are BR Type 2s
Nos D5056 and D5044.
14:55 LNER B1 4-6-0 No 61066 powers an express towards Liverpool Street at Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
15:20 Brush Class 2 (later Class 31) No D5584 powers a Class E express freight towards London at Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End
on 6 February 1960.
15:25 LNER N7/3 0-6-2T No 69614 on a down stopping passenger train at Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
