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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Tyseley Shed: gwrt2402
GWR 0-6-0 360 Class No 363 is seen leaving Tyseley station
with a local passenger service for Leamington comprised of four wheel
carriages. The 360 Class was a small series of 0-6-0 freight locomotives,
numbering 12 in total, designed by Joseph Armstrong and built at Swindon Works
in 1866. They were allocated the running numbers No 360 to No 369, No 1015 and
No 1001, and as built had slightly smaller boilers than the similar and much
more numerous 388 Class which went into production later the same year. Their
coupled wheelbase was also two inches shorter than that of the 388 Class.
Initially they worked between Birmingham and Chester, though later they were
seen in South Wales, at Didcot and in the Birmingham - Stourbridge area. They
were withdrawn between 1918 and 1933, with the last No 363 seen above, having
accumulated over its 70 years working life an impressive 1,384,645 miles.
Photograph by Henry L Salmon
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