Caption:

There was, it seemed, an endless stream of locos going

on and off shed with little time between each movement. How both the industrial map of the UK and the railway have changed today. Here, Sulzer Type 2 Class 25 number 5227 (later 25077), still wearing what was left of its original lined green livery and BR heraldic device, trundles from the yards to the shed dragging a diesel brake-tender behind it having powered a coal trip earlier in the morning. These were truly mixed-traffic engines if the headcode in its roofbox is to be believed, as that suggests a previous Class 1 passenger working. The locomotive was making one of its last journeys in the East Midlands as it was transferred to Ebbw Junction, Newport on the 8th January 1972.