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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Leamington Spa - BR Locomotives: gwrls937
British Railways built 4-6-0 Castle class No 7012 'Barry Castle'
sits at the up home signal waiting for the off to Oxford on 28th September
1963. Gerry Batchelor writes "It is at the head of a Wolverhampton to Margate
Saturday Only express which were regular turns for Wolverhampton's Castles
although when locomotives were in short supply you never quite knew what would
turn up." Built at Swindon works in June 1948 and remained in service until
November 1964 when it was withdrawn from Oxley shed in Wolverhampton and
scrapped in February 1965 by J Cashmore of Great Bridge.
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