Caption:

Engineering works on the West Coast main line have closed

the route on a weekend in the early 1970s necessitating Anglo Scottish Inter City expresses to be diverted over the Settle and Carlisle line. Here English Electric Type 4 Class 40 40012 is heading one of these services about to depart south from Carlisle. The Class 87 electric that brought the train in from Glasgow has retired to one of the middle roads to await the next northbound service off the S and C whilst a Brush Type 4 Class 47 waits on the other line to take over the next southbound train. The 40’s train crew appear to still be chatting on the platform.