An oil-burning 'Castle' 4-6-0 refuelling at Old Oak Common Locomotive Depot
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An oil-burning 'Castle' 4-6-0 refuelling at Old Oak Common Locomotive Depot
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 18 Jan 1948
During the abortive scheme for limited substitution of oil for coal instituted shortly after World War Two - and soon abandoned, refuelling facilities were provided at the GWR's Old Oak Common Locomotive Depot. Here one of the five 'Castle' 4-6-0s converted to oil, No. 5039 'Rhuddlan Castle' (built 6/35, oil-burner 1946-49, withdrawn 6/64) is seen there in January 1948.
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