Heaton Mersey Stockport Cheshire 4th May 1968

            First posted 15 years ago this image has been rescanned, recropped & processed.

Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48115 may be missing its smokebox numberplate and have a crudely painted 9F shedplate but it is still in steam on this the last day of operation at Heaton Mersey depot. Heaton Mersey was a Cheshire Lines Committee shed and this side of the depot was originally Great Central. 

I read that 48115 worked the very last steam turn - coal empties to Godley Junction - from Heaton Mersey that day so it must have been waiting on that train at this time.

The locomotive lasted another 3 months in service being withdrawn from Rose Grove shed in Burnley in July but only survived until October 1968 when it was cut up by Buttigieg's in Newport.

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Taken on: September 27, 2003

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