Hornsey Railway Station, 1958

Comment by Geraldine on Friday

I would have been hanging over that bridge breathing in the steam and smoke - though if it was 1958, I may have grown out of the habit.

Comment by Glenn Wallis 14 hours ago

The Locomotive is a Nigel Gresley designed N2 class 0-6-2 tank loco for the Great Northern Railway. Note the condensing pipes between the smokebox and the water tanks. The exhaust steam was piped from the cylinders back into the water tanks, instead of being allowed to escape up the chimney with smoke from the fire. This was done to reduce pollution in the "City Widened Lines" underground section between Kings Cross and Moorgate. One of these locomotives has survived into the preservation era.

The train appears to be formed of the recently built British Railways standard all-steel suburban non-corridor coaching stock. Some of these coaches had the last "Ladies Only" compartments and were only withdrawn when the Kings Cross suburban services were electrified in 1976. The "Ladies Only" compartments only lasted a few years.

 

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