From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref TA16 1960s Leicester, City Street Scenes, Train Station
The station is Leicester Central. The Britannia Pacific 70054 Dornoch Firth was probably filmed in October 1965 when these locos were sent to the GC line for about a month. As there are just four coaches it was probably only going from Nottingham to Rugby. 34002 Salisbury was hauling an RCTS special on 13th August 1966 less than a month before closure of the line south of Rugby. In those days we didn't have 'Train Stations', they were either 'Railway Stations' or just 'Stations'.
I grew up in Leicester. I can recall travelling out of London Road Station on a steam train to London in 1958. I didn't recognise any of the locations in the clip, though.
@@ianblakesley3349 Must have been very interesting growing up during the cold war and living though Prime Ministers from Macmillan and Thatcher ! (Possibly even earlier)
