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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Shed: gwrt2994

Several GWR locomotives undergoing maintenance inside the Tyseley Repair Shop in May 1959

Several locomotives undergoing maintenance inside the Tyseley Repair Shop in May 1959, including:

Ex-Great Western Railway 4-6-0 10xx (County) class No 1022 ‘County of Northampton’ carrying a Shrewsbury (84G) Shed Plate. The 10xx class were the last passenger express locomotive designed by the GWR. No 1022 was built in December 1946 at Swindon Works and was withdrawn in October 1962 from Shrewsbury shed having travelled 590,659 miles.

Ex Great Western Railway 0-6-2T 56xx class No 6683, with wheels removed and supported on jacks under the buffer beam. This locomotive design was found to be ideally suited to handling heavy loads of coal wagons down the South Wales valleys from the Collieries to the Ports, but with the decline in coal exports, many were used elsewhere on general freight duties. No 6683 was built in October 1928 at Swindon Works and was withdrawn in October 1965 from Croes Newydd shed at Wrexham.

Robert Ferris

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