A crowded Stoke-on-Trent shed in 1965 with 75006 and 48131 nearest the camera. Latterly coded 5D, Stoke shed had an allocation of over 80 steam locomotives at this time. Hard to believe that just two years later the shed had closed and the site was in the process of being redeveloped.
Location: Stoke-on-Trent
Original line: North Staffordshire Railway
Photographer: Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)
Contact photographer: Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)
Date: 1965
Image number: 27988