Front view of an ex-Great Central 0-8-0 at Barnsley Locomotive Depot

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Front view of an ex-Great Central 0-8-0 at Barnsley Locomotive Depot

Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 10 Apr 1949

A representation of the brute force of a big goods engine - here ex-GC Class Q4 0-8-0 No. 63202. Long since largely supplanted by newer and larger 2-8-0's, the Q4 class was extinct by the end of 1951. Barnsley Depot supplied motive power for some of the very intensive colliery traffic in the area. Coded 36D in the Doncaster District of the Eastern Region, in 1950 it had 41 engines:- 6 2-8-0, 6 0-8-0, 11 0-6-0, 3 4-4-2T, 15 0-6-2T, all being of GC origin.

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53.554247
Longitude
-1.475429