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The Harrogate Sunday Pullman.

I saw this Pullman, or its loco at Copley Hill, many times, but never managed to get a decent picture and though we gave it a page in the book, only one train picture came to light. You might have expected Eric Treacy to have bagged it but of course it was a working day for him. So, with apologies, I repeat the picture here to show the whole train. The account is on pages 207-8. We didn't cover the timetabling and can add that a single train was used, leaving King's Cross at 10.10am and returning from Harrogate at 3.40pm (Leeds 4.20om)

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An early view of Copley Hill's Peppercorn A1 No 60133 Pommern as it takes coal before running down to the station to take the Up working. The early plain chimney is being carried and the short-lived blue livery which suggests a date between 4/50 and 6/52. According to David Peel's superb "Locomotive Headboards: The Complete Story" (The History Press, 2006) this was an early style on painted steel. Photo: Photomatic

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I have found this negative inside my "LNER in Leeds" folder, undated and taken on a dull evening at Doncaster. Copley Hill's Peppercorn A1 No 60119 Patrick Stirling is breezing through on the fast line with the return working to King's Cross. The original nameboard is being carried, the thinly-lipped chimney and a nicely cleaned BR blue livery. This loco wasn't named until 7/50 and lost this livery in 1/52 so the date of the photograph can be estimated as the summer of 1950 or 1951. Possibly the former judging by what looks like a fresh nameplate in vast aluminium.

In the background is Retford's B1 No 61211 on a lesser service. Photo: author's collection.

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In an undated view from c1953-54, Copley Hill's Peppercorn A1 No 60122 Curlew attacks Holloway bank with the Down "Harrogate Sunday Pullman". The later chimney is being carried and the Brunswick Green livery. Just about visible is the third version of the nameboard with the shields, added parallel to the outer rim. Photo: Author's collection.

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A scene at Leeds Central with Copley Hill's A1 No 60118 Archibald Sturrock awaiting departure. A more conventional chimney has been fitted and the early shed plate is being carried, 37B, before reclassification as 56C on 1-7-56, so we may be looking at the mid-1950s. The nameboard is the fourth design with the shields of London and Harrogate tilted. What was BR playing at?

When this station closed the train was worked out of Leeds City. I remember talking my dad into giving us a lift one Sunday because I'd seen King's Cross A4 No 60029 Woodcock on the train the previous week, but it turned out to be a fluke and a Copley Hill A1 turned up instead. Photo: SLS 1806.

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Sundays have always been notorious for diversions caused by engineering work, this time near Ardsley, and Ken Field must have been on the ball when he captured the train in April 1959 at Openshaw on the ex-LYR line between Leeds and Huddersfield. It looks like the Up train approaching Cleckheaton. Behind the loco, Copley Hill's A1 No 60123 H.A. Ivatt, are the two cars from Bradford, added at Leeds Central (instead of Wakefield) because the shorter length of the Pullman trains allowed it.

The headboard is hard to see and it's the final version with tilted shields. What became of the preceding designs? Photo: Ken Field.

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