The doyen Class 50 2-10-0 poses for her portrait with preserved “Rheingold” coaches at Junkerath, May 1971. The special train, which ran with 50 001 from Koeln to Trier and then with Pacific 001 199 to Saarbrucken, was arranged as part of the BDEF convention for 1971.

Slide & scan Roger Griffiths; jrcs@blueyonder.co.uk