File:ECR(1851) p13 - Our Starting Train.jpg

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Our Starting Train
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J.W. Whimper
Title
Our Starting Train
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An 1840s steam train collects passengers at Bishopsgate railway station, beginning their journey.
Comment: The locomotive could be the ex Eastern Union Railway No 28 "Aeriel's Girdle" 2-2-0WT, used by the Eastern Counties Railway.
Date 1851
date QS:P571,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
British Library HMNTS 10350.F.16.
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Image extracted from page 13 of "The Eastern Counties Railway Illustrated Guide", by . Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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