Scan of a slide taken 23/06/92: Around this time work occasionally took me north of Leicester and Loughborough always struck me as a good place to stop to eat my sandwiches. I cannot recall why the Great Central had loaned in No. 7760, which on the face of it seems underpowered for the line and its main line image. Anyway the chap on the footplate looks happy with the loco and, surprisingly given the number that have made it into preservation, the 57XXs are a class I seem to only rarely snap, so I was pretty chuffed too. No 7760 made it into preservation after spending a decade with London Transport as L90. I’m not sure what the odd reflection is on the side of the tanks; unfortunately it is somewhat distracting. I think by this time the Great Central has extended south as far as a newly built station on the Leicester outskirts that they named Leicester North and that presumably was this loco’s destination.
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