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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Earlswood Lakes Station: gwrel2877

Ex-GWR 4-6-0 No 6956 'Mottram Hall' approaches Earlswood Lake station on an up Type 6 partially fitted freight

Ex-GWR 4-6-0 No 6956 'Mottram Hall' approaches Earlswood Lake station on an up Type 6 partially fitted freight on 10th February 1965. A Type 4 working was classified by British Railways, according to their 1962 Reporting Codes, as an 'Express freight train partly fitted, with the automatic brake operative on NOT less than 20% of the vehicles. Maximum speed 45 mph. Built at Swindon works to Lot 340 in March 1943, No 6956 was to remain in service until December 1965 when it was withdrawn from 81F Oxford shed to be scrapped by J Cashmore of Newport.

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