MY LIFE IN TRAINS
My Story - Part Twenty Six
Clay Cross
The next afternoon, the last day of May 1963, I got my maps, camera and thumb out and hitched north with no set destination. I ended up just north of Clay Cross station where a cutting side gave me a good vantage point. This was of the Midland Railway Derby and Nottingham lines just north of where they merge into a four track main line, close to Avenue Sidings south of Hasland yard and shed.
I took eighteen photos in just under three hours from 16:00 until 18:55 – it must have been fairly busy because I didn’t photograph many of the diesels!
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All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
LMSR 8F 2-8-0 No 48421 heads a class K mineral freight north on the Midland Main line near Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
Brush Type 4s Nos D1504 and D1512 head north on the Midland Main line near Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
BR Class 2 2-6-0 No 78013 hauls a parcels van north from Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
MR 4F 0-6-0 No 43967 heads a short freight north from Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92132 drifts north from Clay Cross on a class C freight on 31 May 1963.
WD 2-8-0 No 90276 heads south near Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
LMSR Black Five 4-6-0 No 44918 on an up local passenger train heads towards Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
WD 2-8-0 No 90582 heads a down freight north of Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
BR Class 2 2-6-0 No 78013 with a parcels van heads south towards Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
LMSR Jubilee 4-6-0 No 45712 'Victory' heads an express north from Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
L&YR Crab 2-6-0 No 42763 heads from Clay Cross to Hasland shed on 31 May 1963.
WD 2-8-0 No 90682 clanks south towards Clay Cross with a long freight on 31 May 1963.
LMSR Fairburn 2-6-4T No 42091 with a local passenger train heads north from Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
LMSR 8F 2-8-0 No 48607 heads south to pass its classmate No 48374 near Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
WD 2-8-0 No 90368 with a down freight north of Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92155 powers a class C freight north from Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
In evening light, with steam to spare LMS 8F 2-8-0 No 48539 on an up freight passes
LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No 44983 on a down freight north of Clay Cross on 31 May 1963.
