This weeks ‘Throwback Thursday' sees us take a trip south and look back on our first trip to the Leighton Buzzard. Here we see No. 778 running around its train at Pages Park.
Not long after this photo was taken, Pages Park Station was redeveloped, and has now has a brand new station building. See the redevelopment here
The Leighton Buzzard Railway is a 2ft gauge railway in Leighton Buzzard, Befordshire, and runs for 3 miles from Pages Park to Stonehenge Works. The line was originally built to serve quarries which are north of town. In the 1960s, the line closed and was reopened by a group of volunteers who now run the line.
No. 778
No. 778 is one of 495 locos of the Baldwin Class built in 1917 for the UK War Department. They were also supplied to the front line in the first world war. The loco working in India until the 1980s. No. 778 entered service in in August 2007 and is a regular sight on the passenger trains on the line.
- Visit the Leighton Buzzard Railway Website
For more information
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