A visiting North Eastern 4-4-0 at Mexborough Locomotive Depot

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A visiting North Eastern 4-4-0 at Mexborough Locomotive Depot

Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 10 Apr 1949

A head-on view of ex-NE D20 4-4-0 No. 2369 in the yard at Mexborough Locomotive Depot, probably having worked in from York. Mexborough was a large ex-Great Central Depot providing motive power mainly for the heavy coal traffic through the nearby Wath Yard from the many large collieries in the area. It was situated on the south side of the Sheffield line at Mexborough No. 2 Junction, where the ex-South Yorkshire line from Sheffield to Doncaster joined the line from Wath, Barnsley and Manchester via Woodhead. Coded 36B in the Eastern Region (Doncaster Division), in 1950 it had an allocation of 121 locomotives:- 7 4-6-0, 86 2-8-0 (27 LNE, 59 ex-WD), 16 0-6-0, 4 0-8-4T, 4 0-6-2T, 4 0-6-0T.

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