GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Widney Manor Station: gwrwm1914

GWR 0-6-0 Standard Goods No 397 is seen at the head of an up goods train on 27th September 1910. They were officially described by the GWR as the '388 class' and in total 310 were built by the Great Western Railway. They were also sometimes referred to as the Armstrong Goods or Armstrong Standard Goods to differentiate from the Gooch Goods and Dean Goods classes, both of which were also large classes of standard goods locomotives. The class was built in several batches between 1866 and 1876 with many of the locomotives being given numbers from recently withdrawn locomotives, so they do not run in a continuous series, or even in order of construction.

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