This is the Erewash Valley line looking north at Ilkeston, with the train passing the127½ milepost. In the background is Bennerley Viaduct on the GNR line from Derby Friargate to Nottingham London Road. Ilkeston Town and West Hallam stations were to the left of the viaduct.
48060 is from Westhouses shed, which was built for the LMS by Vulcan Fiundry in 1936, with a typical coal train of the period comprising a mix of new all steel 16 Ton wagons and wooden bodied pre-nationalisation or ex-private owner wagons