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	Marcel Gommers
	1950

Brunel Albert Bridge between Saltash and Plymouth

This is Brunel's iconic Royal Albert Bridge between Saltash and Plymouth, crossing the Tamar.
The train is an "Auto Train" in that the locomotive stays at one end or, as is the case with this one, in the middle of it's carriages. They had a mechanical linkage from the front of the train to the engine that enabled the driver, situated in the lead carriage to operate the regulator and the brakes that would otherwise have to be used on the engine. The fireman remained, of course, on the footplate.
The locomotive on this train could be 0-6-0PT 6414 which regularly operated "Auto Trains" over the Royal Albert Bridge.

Info thanks to John Southall.
Picture Added on 07 February 2008.

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