6th August 1995

This is the 13.42 Colne to Blackpool service, at Rose Grove. I had ridden up to Colne and back again on this unit, a Regional Railways Class 153 no. 153367. Rose Grove was the site of a major steam shed that lasted right up until the demise of steam on British Railways in August 1968, but the shed site is now buried beneath the nearby M65 motorway. What a shame.