Sandy in Bedforshire is where, for a short distance, the former L&NWR Bedford to Cambridge 'Varsity' route (closed in 1968) and the GNR lines that are now part of the ECML run in parallel for about half a mile but do not connect. Both companies had separate but adjacent stations with a shared island platform, this is now merged into one station. With a down 2-coach 'local' train, ex-Great Northern Railway Ivatt 'J1' class 0-6-0 No. 3003 heads north away from Sandy Station on My Day in 1937. It was built at Doncaster in Sept. 1908 as GNR No. 3 and was withdrawn in Aug. 1954 as BR No. 65002. The ex-LNW line is above 3003 on the left.

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