GCR class C4 4-4-2 No 5261 stands at Lincoln Central with an short Ordinary Passenger train of three Howlden carriages and an ex-GNR Gresley bogie van that's come in from Doncaster behind a loco recently acquired by Lincoln in 1927. Downgraded tender locos were used because of the distances involved.

Photo: Colling Turner/Rail Archive Stephenson