Caption:

Carlisle (Citadel) station is almost deserted on a Sunday afternoon

as an English Electric Type 4 Class 40 number 212 (40012) creeps down the platform to the south end of the station ready to take over a West Coast Inter City express diverted over the Settle and Carlisle line. 212 was built in 1959 and in 1960 was named ‘Aureol’. It was one of the few then allocated to the LM’s Western lines to receive a name after one of the ocean-going vessels to frequent Liverpool docks. It was saved from scrap and now resides under preservation at the Midland Railway’s Swanwick Junction facility.