MY LIFE IN TRAINS
My Story - Part Fifteen
Ponders End and Stratford
In the middle of April 1961 I managed an afternoon back on the Great Eastern mainlines at Ponders End and Stratford. It was very noticeable how shiny the diesels were compared to steam – not too surprising when you compared the new diesel shed at Stratford with the state of the steam sheds.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
GER J19 0-6-0 No 64667 heading north pauses at Ponders End on 14 April 1961.
GER J15 0-6-0 No 65465 shunts the down pick up freight at Ponders End on 14 April 1961. Note the outfit sported by my companion spotter!
LNER K1 2-6-0 No 62070 powers alongside the new order in the shape of a Brush Class 2 diesel (later Class 31) at Ponders End on 14 April 1961.
LNER L1 2-6-4T No 67737 heads a parcels train towards London at Ponders End on 14 April 1961.
Brush Type 2 No D5658 heads a southbound freight through Ponders End on 14 April 1961.
Brush Type 2 No D5666 heads a northbound freight through Ponders End on 14 April 1961.
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.
BR Britannia 4-6-2 No 70005 'John Milton' storms through Stratford on a Norwich express on 14 April 1961.
WD 2-8-0 90018 trundles slowly through Stratford on 14 April 1961, coming from the Temple Mills Yard direction.
LNER L1 2-6-4T No 67703 heads a rake of London Tilbury and Southend line electric stock through Stratford on 14 April 1961.
Short lived BTH Type 1 No D8234 heads east at Stratford on 14 April 1961.
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.
