An interesting southbound parcels with a LMS 'Stove R' leading and a catering vehicle as the last coach. Peter Kerslake says What a splendid portrait of 70011, formerly Hotspur at this fine location, captured from a conveniently placed overbridge by our fortunate cameraman on a clear and bright day with the sun in just the right place highlighting the scene. The fireman is taking things easy and the injector is feeding water into 70011's boiler as they drift through Winwick Junction on the West Coast main line, a location which I visited just once whlst on holiday at Leigh with relatives in the mid 'fifties. 70011 Hotspur was allocated from new in May1951 to Norwich where it remained until a move to March in September1961 before, like all its Eastern Region sisters, it went to the Midland Region initially at Carlisle Kingmoor where many saw out their last years of service, 70011 being condemned from there in December1967. It was on the former Great Eastern section of the Eastern Region that the Norwich and Stratford shedded Britannias put in so many fine performances, working the tightly timed express rosters between North Norfolk and the Essex coast to and from Liverpool Street from the early 'fifties for ten years or so.