73050 1960s Newton Heath
A craftsman at work. It is in steam and being numbered -very strange! Could it be when newly preserved and before the engine was allowed to make a single run from Manchester via the Hope Valley Line to New England shed (Peterborough) in steam on the night of 20 September 1968 -one full month after the end of steam on BR? 73050 was an exhibit at the May 1954 Willesden International Railway Congress Exhibition and its planned allocation to Bath Green Park Depot , the principal Depot on the Somerset and Dorset line , in company with 73051 and 73052 was accordingly delayed for a month until June of that year , her two sisters already being at Bath . The three Standards replaced Bulleid Westcountry class locomotives 34040 , 34041 and 34042 , which were returned home to Bournemouth that same month following service on the Somerset and Dorset network from early in 1951.