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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Tyseley Shed: gwrt2994
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1022 was built in December 1946 at Swindon Works and was withdrawn in October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Swindon Works and was withdrawn in October 1965 from Croes Newydd shed at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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