Hi Hereward and welcome to the forum. Interesting thread too. Now Kings Cross for me back in the late fifties and early sixties was the place to be! I often would travel through from Lincoln as a lad on my way over to Belgium three times a year. We were occasionally hauled by the A4 and boy did we love them on the ECML. We could hear them and shout Streak coming, and the young spotters would get so excited! Passing sheds along the way like Grantham, Finsbury Park, New England and of course Top Shed. I loved seeing these east coast locos cruising in to Kings X and having to wait till the coaches were taken out again before being able to move out to the shed for preparing for the next duty.
I loved the smoke, the steam and smells of these great beasts of an engine! Bliss.
All the best
Phil
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