A grubby A4 -unusual for one based at Kings Cross. No 60006 approaches Grantham with an up train on Christmas Eve 1956. It is obviously a very dull and dismal day and at that time of the year taking photographs of moving trains is far from easy.

The photographer was active in the period 1953-57 when none of the single chimney A4s had yet been converted to double chimney which makes his images even more interesting.

© David P Williams Archive / Rail-Online Original photograph by Les Perrin