196 'Errol Lonsdale' heads the 12.30 New Alresford to Ropley service near to the Hampshire village of Bishop's Sutton. I do not particularly like tender first photographs but these locomotives were designed to be equally as effective working in both directions. 196 never actually worked for British Railways being owned by the Ministry of Defence from new for training purposes at the Longmoor Military Railway. 196's main claim to fame was that it was the locomotive that starred, along with Frankie Howard, George Cole and Terry Scott, in the 1966 film 'The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery'.
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