70034 1955-05-12 London Liverpool Street
View towards the buffer-stops on the main Platform 9 at Liverpool Street. The 'Hook Continental' Boat Express to Parkeston Quay will leave at 7.30pm, with passengers for the night crossing to Hook of Holland. The locomotive is BR Standard 'Britannia' 7MT 4-6-2 No. 70034 'Thomas Hardy' (built 12/52, withdrawn 5/67). It is just 70 miles to Parkeston Quay so seems a waste to use a Britannia but perhaps the diagramming allowed this as a 'filling in' turn.