MY LIFE IN TRAINS
Lineside and Station Sequences
Part Twenty Five
Rugby on 29 January 1961
New Barnet and Potters Bar on 11 March 1961
After our Devon holiday I was straight back into school, into the sixth form studying for four A Levels, with extra maths at school and extra geology night classes at the local South West Essex Technical College, Time for watching trains was limited, more limited because I now had a girlfriend and made frequent visits to White Hart Lane on Saturday afternoons.
In January I visited Crewe Works by train and took one photo from the train in Rugby. The few photos I took at Crewe Works are included in my Engine Portraits series.
Then in March I returned to my old haunts at New Barnet and Potters Bar for an afternoon and a morning. Judging by some of the long gaps between photos in this session, I suspect I was avoiding most of the diesel powered trains, and definitely missing out the DMU locals. I can’t find the notes I took at the time, just the transcribed notes of the photos I took.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
10:30 Taken from a train heading north, LNWR 0-8-0 Super D No 49134 pauses on a southbound freight at Rugby on 29 January 1961.
14:53 BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92149 runs north light engine through New Barnet on 11 March 1961.
15:29 LNER A4 4-6-2 No 60018 'Sparrow Hawk' heads north with what looks like the 'Niddrie' express goods, north of Potters Bar on 11 March 1961 -
the crew look curiously at me, and the tender is coaled up to the loading gauge!
15:31 Grimy LNER V2 2-6-2 No 60829 speeds a Class C freight north on the slow line at Potters Bar on 11 March 1961.
15:40 BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92183 heads an up Class H freight, surprisingly on the fast line, near Potters Bar on 11 March 1961.
15:41 BR built A1 4-6-2 No 60120 'Kittiwake' heads a down express north of Potters Bar on 11 March 1961.
16:12 LNER A4 4-6-2 No 60010 'Dominion of Canada' on an up express north of Potters Bar on 11 March 1961.
16:27 LNER A1 4-6-2 No 60153 'Flamboyant' heads north from Kings Cross near Potters Bar on 11 March 1961.
16:34 BR Britannia 4-6-2 No 70041 'Sir John Moore' heads north from Kings Cross near Potters Bar on 11 March 1961.
A rare visitor to London ex-Doncaster Works, Carlisle Canal LNER A3 4-6-2 No 60068 'Sir Visto' speeds a down Class C express freight-
the 4.5pm Kings Cross Goods-Dringhouses (714 Down) - north of Potters Bar on 11 March 1961.
16:48 Brush Type 2 No D5652 hauls a Class B stopping passenger train south towards Potters Bar and Kings Cross on 11 March 1961.
16:49 LNER A3 4-6-2 No 60111 'Enterprise' heads a northbound express north of Potters Bar on 11 March 1961.
16:51 English Electric Type 4 No D250 heads an express towards Kings Cross north of Potters Bar on 11 March 1961.
