A bit of a surprise.. | I hadn’t expected to see 68067 at th…

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I hadn’t expected to see 68067 at the head of a 6 coach passenger train, but it turned out after a diesel loco failure (sixties realism?) it was empty stock being taken away from the platform to the up carriage siding.

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