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The Friern Barnet Photo Archive
No: 3624 Contributor: Friern Barnet & District Local History Society Year: 1957 District: Friern Barnet
TrainsA steam train, semaphore signals and train spotters on the embankment alongside Bethune Park photographed in August 1957 by Karl Ruge
Picture added on 16 January 2013 at 12:00
I spent so much of my life here. Every day we would cross the lines and play and live in the railway coaches on the sidings, Anything to get away from my adopted parents.
Added by Rufus Jones on 23 February 2015