STEAM DAYS In Colour 188: GER lines in London

摘要

Contrasting express and suburban steam-hauled operations under the wires from Liverpool Street, through Bethnal Green to Stratford in the late 1950s are recalled through the photographs of Dick Riley and Ken Wightman. Early dieselization of the Norwich main line was already in hand by this time, with a quickly evaporating steam scene, East Anglia gaining widespread modernisation long before much of the country, but a glimpse of the North Woolwich branch proves that even in March 1962 there were pockets of steam-hauled passenger work.