Leaving the Station no-discount Times staff photographer Vincent Laforet

Times staff photographer Vincent Laforet took the image on April 16

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Leaving the Station no-discount Times staff photographer Vincent LaforetA train bound for Edinburgh, Scotland, creeps out of King's Cross station in London in December 1952. Though the locomotive appears to be departing at twilight, it's actually in the early afternoon, but London is shrouded in fog from a devastating stretch of brutal winter weather. "Winter has come early, freakishly and violently, to Britain and Europe this year," The Times Magazine wrote on December 21, 1952. "London's recent four days of stifling