Llanelly Locomotive Depot, interior
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Llanelly Locomotive Depot, interior
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 7 Apr 1958
Located near Morfa Junction near the Docks, this was a major Depot, which provided the locomotives working in Llanelli Docks and the various Yards in the area (Llandilo Junction etc.) as well as motive power for the freight traffic out of the area, on the South Wales main line and the Central Wales line. Coded 87F, it had an allocation of 88 locomotives in 1954, which included 'indigenous' engines of the ex-Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway as well as numerous standard ex-Great Western classes, especially pannier-tanks. The 88 comprised: 3 4-6-0s, 3 2-8-0s, 4 2-6-0s, 5 2-8-2Ts, 17 2-8-0Ts, 2 0-6-2Ts and no less than 54 0-6-0Ts. In 1958 there would have been little change and this photographs features: 2-8-2T No. 7211 and 0-6-0Ts Nos. 1633, 3642, 1607 and 5722. The Depot closed on 14/9/65.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.665927
Longitude
-4.150369