With three BR staff in attendance attempting to attach the water pipes and refill the steam heat boiler of 55016, ‘Gordon Highlander’ at York. It was leading the 1S72 22.30 London King's Cross to Edinburgh. They eventually succeeded and got it the boiler filled and the train got on its way into the freezing December night. Gordon Highlander is still with us today being one of the chosen ones that entered preservation in October 1983.
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