MY LIFE IN TRAINS
Lineside and Station Sequences
Part Twenty Eight
Stratford – 14 April 1961
Box Hill, Ponders End and Stratford – June 1961
Euston – 5 August 1961
There were just 21 minutes between the first and last photograph in the series from the platform at Stratford on 14 April. Four steam classes and one (rare) diesel – exciting times.
In May 1961 I went on two organised works and shed bashes, which you can see in my Engine Portraits series. The first was by coach to Swindon and sheds in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. The second was to Derby and Crewe and I have no memory of how we got there!
I only have four photos to show for the whole of June 1961, and then nothing until September. The first image in June was taken while I was on a field trip on Box Hill in Surrey, looking at the geological structures and searching for fossils. By luck a train passed on the Reading to Redhill line, and I tried to capture the scene. After that, just one photo at Ponders End, and two at Stratford.
And that was that for the summer, until a long session at Potters Bar early in September.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
14:39 LNER L1 2-6-4T No 67735 hauls empty coaching stock alongside a pair of diesel shunters (later Class 08) into Stratford on 14 April 1961
- the Gresley teak coaches stand out from the BR Mark 1s.
14:40 BR Britannia 4-6-2 No 70005 'John Milton' storms through Stratford on a Norwich express on 14 April 1961.
14:42 WD 2-8-0 90018 trundles slowly through Stratford on 14 April 1961, coming from the Temple Mills Yard direction.
14:45 LNER L1 2-6-4T No 67703 heads a rake of London Tilbury and Southend line electric stock through Stratford on 14 April 1961.
14:51 Short lived BTH Type 1 No D8234 heads east at Stratford on 14 April 1961.
15:00 LNER K1 2-6-0 No 62019 heads a rake of empty stock bound for Liverpool Street out of Stratford Yard on 14 April 1961.
14:15 The view from Box Hill on 1 June 1961 - if you look closely you can see an SR Mogul heading east from Dorking to Redhill with a passenger train.
15:25 GER J15 0-6-0 No 65476 pauses for a natter at Ponders End on 3 June 1961.
9:30 LNER N7/3 0-6-2T No 69678 hauls a curious collection of vehicles past Stratford on 4 June 1961.
9:40 English Electric Type 3 No D6706 heads an express to Liverpool Street through Stratford station on 4 June 1961.
13:02 LMSR Princess Royal No 46207 'Princess Arthur of Connaught' about to leave Euston on 5 August 1961.
