LNER A1 No.4473 Solario on the 3.20pm Marylebone-Manchester Central near Bulwell Common on May 22, 1939.

This express was unusual in running to Manchester Central not London Road. This was the only regular service to bring a Gresley Pacific or V2 to Manchester Central and then, as far as we are aware, only in 1938/9.

Photo: T.G. Hepburn/Rail Archive Stephenson