2945 - Photo: Alistair Holt (the late Keith Holt Collection).

Having arrived in the capital via the 1A12 08:10 Newcastle - King's Cross service 55005 (D9005) "THE PRINCE OF WALES'S OWN REGIMENT OF YORKSHIRE" is seen on Passenger Loco on the 23rd August 1969. The locomotive had only been released from Doncaster Works, in its new blue livery, two days previously.

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