Time Capsules - Old Photographs from the past

I would guess that the locomotive is a Stanier Class 2P 2-6-2T, which were built between 1935 and 1938 in several batches at Derby and Crewe. The BR numbers range from 40071-40209.

The locomotive is, I think, an Ivatt class 2 2-6-2T, first introduced in 1946. 41725, had it existed at this time would have been a Johnson 0-6-0T dating from 1878. If, say, the engine was 41275, then it was recorded working trains to Buckingham and Bletchley but by 1963 was operating in Cornwall. It had been built at Crewe in 1950 and was withdrawn in October 1965 from Bournemouth shed.
Beyond the second coach and the passenger footbridge is what appears to be the goods shed.

Leighton Buzzard is on the West Coast Main Line and there was a branch to Dunstable here. The next station south, towards Euston, is Cheddington, associated in my mind with the Great Train Robbery

Other recent views of the station have been posted on the Geograph site, for example: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1346001

Peter - I think it more likely to be an Ivatt Class 2 because of the shape of the coal bunker, much more pronounced than on the Stanier [Class 3]. And the Ivatt locos tended to carry their number underneath the cab windows whereas the Staniers had theirs located on the bunker. There were 130 of the Ivatts in 1960, numbered 41200-41329. Apparently the 2-6-2 tanks took over the running of the Dunstable branch trains in the 1950s and I suspect this is such a train, possibly just arrived from Dunstable. The line closed in 1962. For more information on the branch see: disused-rlys.fotopic.net/c923788.html

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