All Aboard 'Football' Train to Find Out More About Derby County Loco ; Whenever We Print Anything About the Railways, Bygones Readers Demonstrate Their Incredible Knowledge On the Subject by Writing in with Amazing Information Concerning Whatever has Been Mentioned or Photographed. Two Recent Railway Photographs Have Brought These Responses From John Morley and Dave Allen

Derby Evening Telegraph › December 01, 2009

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OUR picture of a locomotive named after Derby County (Bygones, November 16) has brought in several responses from readers.

John Morley e-mailed Bygones to say loco 61651 named Derby County was a B17 class engine and was built for the London and North Eastern Railway by the Robert Stephenson Company in 1936.

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All Aboard 'Football' Train to Find Out More About Derby County Loco ; Whenever We Print Anything About the Railways, Bygones Readers Demonstrate Their Incredible Knowledge On the Subject by Writing in with Amazing Information Concerning Whatever has Been Mentioned or Photographed. Two Recent Railway Photographs Have Brought These Responses From John Morley and Dave Allen

"As Geoff Moore says, there were 22 'Footballers' among the 73 similar locos, the rest being named after country houses and regiments from the East Anglia area.

"Some worked the Great Centra...

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