When I visited Leicester’s ‘shed’ or (more officially) ‘motive power depot, in the late 1950s, with the Oxford City Locomotive Club, I little thought that I would be living in the Leicester region (well, 22 miles eastwards) in last decade of the 20th century and the two succeeding ones. All traces of the ‘shed’ have gone, I am fairly certain (though I have not checked). I am in Leicester many a Sunday morning to visit the Unitarian chapel in Great Bond Street. And the city is doubtless much cleaner for the lack of all those coal-burning locos, though I mourn their passing, in terms of their links with my young days.
This locomotive (though I haven’t checked the details by looking it up) would have been in its heyday about 20 or more years before 1950s. The inter-war years. Light-to-medium passenger train duties. A splendid sight. Trains to the coast perhaps. Taking the “chissits” on their days out: “Ah-much-chissit?” sounds like: “I’m a ‘chissit’ “ (enquiring the price of anything). Happy days! Skegness. (added 12.1.17).
Taken with my Ensign Selfix 16-20 (16 shots on 120 film - always Ilford FP3 in my case), probably on a longish exposure, guessed, and the camera held as steadily as I could, thus producing this fairly reasonable result.