With 1500v. DC electification of the Woodhead route complete, steam operation is now in its final weeks. Ex-LNER Thompson 'B1' 4-6-0 No. 61162 hurries through the newly refurbished Woodhead Station in summer 1954 with an eastbound express. 61162 was built by Vulcan Foundry in May 1947 as LNER No. 1162 and was withdrawn in Dec. 1964.

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