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Quainton News Archive - Quainton News No. 39 - Autumn / Winter 1980
From the Archives - Quainton Road and Aylesbury
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Metropolitan Railway and Great Central Railway billboards are displayed, also advertisements for 'The Daily Chronicle' and 'Maples for curtains and furniture'. |
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In the rain, on 23rd May 1954, are 69302, former G.C.R. 0-6-2T (LNER Class N5), GW 1411, GW 0-4-2T and 67772 2-6-4T (Class L 1). Note the water tank, water crane, inspection pit and coaling stage. |
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London Transport 4-4-0T, 23, freshly repainted earlier in 1934, has arrived at Aylesbury from Quainton Road with wagons from the Brill branch and from other Metropolitan Stations to Verney. Metropolitan Railway 23, built by Beyer, Peacock & Co. in 1866, became LPTB property in 1934 and was renumbered L45 in 1938. After restoration at Neasden it was in Clapham Museum from 1961 to 1963 and 1964 to 1973, at Syon Park from 1973 and will be exhibited at the new Covent Garden Transport Museum when it opens - probably in 1980. |
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GWR 4-4-2T, 2222, standing in Aylesbury Station on a Paddington train via Princes Risborough . Notice the old Metropolitan Railway carriage body and the roof of the locomotive sheds. |
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