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Built as the 100th pacific at Doncaster 1937. No 4498 & named Sir Nigel Gresley. Renumbered 1n 1946 No 7 .

1948 B.R No 60007.

Above  July 1961 she reverses on the an express for the north. Shed 34A KX. Wthdrarwn Feb 1966.

I first visited Kings Cross was in March 1959. I was on a projectionist course in Camden Town. After the evening meal I slipped down to Kings Cross. At that time of the year it was dark when I got there, so I did not get any photo's.

 I returned in the summer of 1961 when I went on holiday with my brother. I can still remember coming up the stairs out of the underground, when a young lad passed us shouting, the Fox is on the Elizabethan platform 5. Trainspotting was limited to platform 8 so we did not get a picture. I managed to get access to the other platforms later on.

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This picture was taken of myself at Kings Cross on the 11th June 1995. We had traveled from Newcastle to London with preserved loco No 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley painted in the 1952 standard B.R blue livery. I have been back to Kings Cross for a brief visit on the 4th Nov 2002. 60007 on the E.C.M.L