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GWR Route: Moreton-in-Marsh to Shipston-on-Stour
Shipston-on-Stour Station: gwrss570
Looking along the defunct passenger station with the local
goods service preparing to return to Moreton-in-Marsh tender first. Every week
the occassional freight working pottered along the branch from Moreton in Marsh
until the line finally closed in May 1960. Two weeks prior to closure British
Railways Standard Class 2 Mogul No 78008 prepares to leave Shipston with a
freight. Built at Darlington works in March 1953 it lasted only thirteen years
in service before being withdrawn in October 1966 from Oxley shed to be
scrapped in January 1967 by J Cashmore of Great Bridge.
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