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Class 117 DMU at Braunstone Gate

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Class 117 DMU sets L722+L703 at Braunstone Gate Sidings, Leicester on February 19, 1994.

Doing what the BLS (Branch Line Society) did best crunching the rust on sections of the network rarely reached by other railtour operators.

Here class 117 DMU sets L722 (51345+51387) & L703 (51359+51401) coupled behind disgorge their passengers into the remnants of Leicester Braunstone Gate Sidings for a photo stop on the "Radlett Rambler" railtour. This line being the former Great Central Railway route into the city from the south but truncated as a branch after the Beeching closures, its final days being to serve Vic Berry's scrapyard using a curve added by BR in 1965 off the Coalville freight line linking the former Midland and GC lines together. The whole area has since been redeveloped with no trace of the railway remaining.

Class 117
51345
L722
Braunstone Gate
19th February 1994

Adrian Nicholls
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