Caption:

A conundrum; at some point recently the Class 50 has

worked the 1M19 13 50 (SO) Glasgow Central to Euston according to this shot of Crewe TMD one afternoon in the summer of 1972. But, it is facing north, so it’s the wrong way round and turntables weren’t in use then, nor was there a triangle to my knowledge. It is easier to say that the front Brush Type 4 of the two Class 47s on the left has been engaged in local freight traffic, maybe salt from Middlewich or coal via Madeley Chord Junction. One is being fuelled up by a TMD depot staff member standing under a canopy that looks particularly inadequate in a rainstorm situation.