January 30 1968 Liverpool England

Starting in September 1967, I worked and lived in Birmingham England because one of Britain's largest computers was located there.  My company was using that computer to run Traffic Prediction Models to determine the future transportation needs of the urban environmens around Leeds and Liverpool.  Our UK headquarters were in Liverpool and I would regularly have to travel up from Birmingham to Liverpool to report in.

The year 1968 was the last year of regular steam in England.  Somehow I learned that the 9:00 train from Liverpool Exchange Street Station to Preston still had a steam locomotive.  On this day, instead of heading to the office to be on time, I headed to the station to get the attached picture.  A few months later, there were no steam locomotives pulling trains in England.