Ex-GC 4-4-2T at Ardsley Locomotive Depot
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Ex-GC 4-4-2T at Ardsley Locomotive Depot
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 25 May 1947
Ardsley Depot was a large one, with 93 locomotives in 1947, providing motive power for the busy freight and coal traffic on the ex-Great Northern lines in the area based on Lofthouse Marshalling Yard and some passenger traffic between Wakefield, Leeds and Bradford. The complement in 1947 comprised:- 7 4-6-0, 5 2-8-0 (LMS-type), 9 0-8-0, 30 0-6-0, 9 4-4-2T, 3 0-6-2T, 30 0-6-0T. No. 7451 depicted here was a Robinson C14 4-4-2T.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.72902
Longitude
-1.528429