Railway Herald
LMS Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0 No. 48624 in fictional LMS Crimson Lake livery on the "UP" main line, overtaking LMS Ivatt Class 2MT Mogul Mogul No. 46521 on the "UP" loop at speed, as it passes through the fully operational Swithland Sidings with the 2A05 Service having departed Loughborough Central at 09.45 for Leicester North on 6th October 2012, during the Great Central Railway's Autumn 2012 Steam Gala. 48624 is the sole surviving Southern built example, being built at the Southern Railways Ashford Works in 1943.
Mike Brook
