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GB_17_Day_3_Crewe_78030. HOW IT ONCE WAS: 1. Taken from roughly the same spot as the previous picture, but almost 68 years earlier (19th May 1957), we see BR Standard Class 2 Mogul No.78030 acting as Crewe station pilot. It has bought in a van and two carriages for attaching to the rear of a southbound express. Built in September 1954, No.78030 was based at Crewe North engine shed between April 1956 and October 1964; it would be withdrawn from Crewe South on 9th October 1965, just eleven years old. roger.griffiths@hotmail.com

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Great Central Railway steam locomotive BR 78022 with train in Loughborough, 13th september 1998. Binary file /pix/gb/museum/GCR/steam-misc/GCR78002.txt matches

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Engine shed at Loughborough. Great Central Railway 16 May, 2010. D h Thomas. thomdh@hotmail.com