MY LIFE IN TRAINS
My Story - Part Five
Duck Lees Lane Crossing, Ponders End
After our school trip to Chester, Wrexham and Oswestry on 2 January 1960, my next photography outing was to Duck Lees Lane crossing, just down the line from Ponders End. I was still to learn that my camera and film combination probably wasn’t up to capturing moving trains in February, but if I had we wouldn’t have this snapshot of an afternoon on the Cambridge line in the winter of 1960.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
LMSR Ivatt 4 2-6-0 No 43151 heads north on a stopping passenger train at Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
Great Eastern 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.
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.
Great Eastern 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.
Brush Class 2 (later Class 31) No D5579 heads a down Cambridge express at Duck Lees Lane crossing near Ponders End on 6 February 1960.
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.
