BR 7MT 4-6-2 No 70034 Thomas Hardy with the 11.15am Nottingham-Marylebone van train leaving Nottingham Victoria in c1963, it still carries a 1A shedcode plate. As was usual there is a passenger vehicle leading this particular train - does anyone know why this was always the case?

Chris Ward says "Would the passenger vehicle be there because the train came down as the previous night's Newspapers, which was a class "A"?

Photo: T.G. Hepburn / Rail Archive Stephenson