GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Southam Road and Harbury: Photo gwrsrh276

GWR outside framed 2-6-0 Aberdare class No 2608 is seen at the head of a long mineral goods train heading for Banbury. Michael Byng writes think that the tender attached to the "Aberdare" 2-6-0 is an ROD type tender taken from surplus ROD 2-8-0's (of GC origin) that the GWR purchased immediately after the First World War. Re-built at Swindon works in January 1906 from a Kruger 4-6-0 No 2608 and remained in service until withdrawn in October 1945 from Stourbridge Junction shed. C1937

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