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We wish to thank Ray Wardleworth and Roger Gurney, originally from Lidlington, who have very kindly loaned Lidlington Online original photographs from 1955. Reproduction is not permitted without prior written consent from the stated copyright holder.

© Copyright 1955,2003 Roger Gurney - All Rights Reserved
Ex-L.N.E.R class D16 4-4-0 with a Sunday morning
Cambridge-Oxford train in January 1955 climbing up
to Ridgmont from Lidlington. Snowy conditions were
good for smoke-effect photos.

© Copyright 1955,2003 Roger Gurney - All Rights Reserved
B.R. class 4MT 4-6-0 in the 75xxx series silhouetted against
the evening sky with a Bletchley bound train, having just
left Lidlington. Photo taken at the 'forty-steps' which was
an official pedestrian crossing over the railway embankment.

© Copyright 1955,2003 Roger Gurney - All Rights Reserved
B.R. class 2MT 2-6-2T tank engine, believed to be no 84005,
with the Bedford-Bletchley push-pull service, or
'motor train' between Lidlington and Ridgmont.
The area in the background used to be known as `rough hills'.
The locomotive is only about a year old (in 1955) and
the photo was taken in the school holidays, as the
train was 3 coaches during term time.