Description

BR Standard Class 4 No. 76015 (built 1953) and BR Standard Class 9F No. 92220 (built 1960) – named ‘Evening Star’, the last steam locomotive built by BR workshops and, consequently, always destined to be preserved – pass over Masbury summit with an eight-carriage 9.03 am Bristol-Bournemouth service on Saturday 1 September 1962.

The date was poignant as, although this was not a long-distance service, all long-distance services and the associated 9F motive power would cease to run on the S&D after the following weekend.

Photo by G A Richardson. Copyright S&DRT. Our ref. WSHSD_2022_14_437.

9 x 6 cm medium format negative.

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