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62555 1950s Cambridge

62555 1950s Cambridge

Platform 5 Down train.

Peter Kerslake says "Allocated to Norwich at this date "Claud Hamilton" 62555 awaits the "Right Away from the bay platform at the eastern end of Cambridge station with its Motive Power Depot over on the extreme right.
Mainstay of passenger services throughout Cambridgeshire and Norfolk these locomotives were handsome in appearance despite the fact that my memory reminds me that they invariably looked to be rather "work weary" and in need of a cleaner's oily rag when I became acquainted with them in the mid 'fifties here at Cambridge, King's Lynn and Ipswich.
The Westinghouse pump for the braking system dominates the side of the firebox and the early form of mechanical lubricator is mounted on the framing above the trailing wheel of the bogie."