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  • Andy Prime

    3 October 2010, 08:36:35

    Is that a gantry crane in the background, at East Croydon ? I'm struggling to place that...

  • Martin Allen

    4 October 2010, 07:28:25

    Hi Andy, Yes, it East Croydon opposite Platform 1, showing the former goods yard in the background. The crane is one of those provided at several railway locations in the south of England during WW2, part of the transhipment arrangements for the D-Day invasion. The photo date is circa. 1974.

    The coach was in ex-works condition, on it's delivery run from Stewarts Lane to Newhaven. A rare case of an "Internal User" on the main line. Livery was dark olive green, sadly the photo does not do justice to it.

  • michael costar

    4 October 2010, 19:31:46

    I believe this became 975375, does anyone know when it was renumbered and repainted into blue?

  • Frank Nicholas

    4 October 2010, 20:40:49

    Present condition:

    http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=2640

    http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pics/2526/2526.html

    The latter is the webpage for the coach from the Bluebell, and includes a 'blue' view, and a brief history.

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