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| Long after passenger services ceased on the Higham Ferrers branch, a railway society 'Brake Van Special' trundles through Rushden station on its way back to Wellingborough during Saturday 3 July 1965. Observed from the footbridge, Standard class 2 No. 78028 from Leicester shed works the special past the brick-built station buildings. 78028 was one of the class 2 Standards fitted with cut down mountings to allow for clearance in the narrow bore of Glenfield tunnel on the Leicester (West Bridge) branch. Fortunately Rushden station still stands and is the headquarters of the Rushden Historical Transport Society. |
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In a winter landscape at Irchester station on the main line to St Pancras, a Stanier 8F 2-8-0 No. 48381 struggles up Sharnbrook bank with a freight during January 1959, heading south on the more easily graded goods lines. Irchester's station buildings were unusually situated on the road bridge from where this photograph was taken. |