The Permanent Way men at Finedon take the passing trains on either side in their stride on 2nd May 1962.

No.48010 was one of the first production batch of 8F 2-8-0s built in 1935. Unlike the later engines they had domeless vertical throatplate boilers whereas the rest of the class had domed sloping throatplate boilers which had a higher degree of superheating.