MY LIFE IN TRAINS
Lineside and Station Sequences
Part Fourteen
St Pancras and Waterloo – 26 March 1960
Two photos, thirty minutes apart – one at St Pancras and one at Waterloo – on a Saturday evening in March.
What was I doing there, what came before, what came after – I’ve no idea! Theatre, concert, opera, aimless wander around London – all credible but lost to my memory.
A few years earlier, before I owned a camera, the arrival at St Pancras would probably have been double headed, a 2P 4-4-0 and a Jubilee, or maybe even an LMSR Compound 4-4-0.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
17:55 Against the background of the iconic gas holders, LMSR Royal Scot 4-6-0 No 46164 'The Artists' Rifleman' slows for the final stop at St Pancras.
18:25 In the gloom of a March evening, the signals illuminate SR Rebuilt Merchant Navy 4-6-2 No 35024 'East Asiatic Company'
as it prepares to leave Waterloo for Bournemouth.
