Railway Herald
LMS Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0 No. 48624 in fictional LMS Crimson Lake livery at speed on the 'Up' main line, as it passes the fully operational Swithland Sidings and overtakes GWR Hawksworth Pannier Tank Class 94xx 0-6-0PT No. 9466 on the "UP" loop, hauling a train of Windcutter Mineral Wagons, working the 11:30 Loughborough Central to Rothley Brook service on 6th October 2012, during the Great Central Railway's Autumn 2012 Steam Gala. No. 48624 is the sole surviving Southern built example, being built at the Southern Railways Ashford Works in 1943.
Mike Brook
