50049 'Defiance' brings up the rear of the 11.22 Clapham Yard to Widnes Tech 5Q26 move as it passes the site of Roade station. The move was to get South Western Railway's 458505 unit to the Alstom Merseyside facility for its overhaul and refit. Leading the train at the front, now out of site, is 50007 'Hercules'. Who would ever have thought that forty-four years ago that I would be photographing the same locomotive still earning its keep if looking a little different and in an alternative location, see
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