Southbound freight train on the Kingswinford Branch at Aldersley Junction
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Southbound freight train on the Kingswinford Branch at Aldersley Junction
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 4 Sep 1962
View northward, towards Codsall, Wellington and Shrewsbury (to the left), Oxley Sidings, Wolverhampton etc. (to the right). The train is headed towards Kingswinford Junction and Stourbridge Junction, on a line only opened in 1925, closed to passengers in 1932, to goods in 1965. The locomotive (4-6-0 No. 5900 'Hinderton Hall' is now preserved at Didcot Railway Centre, having been built in 3/31 and withdrawn in 12/63. (On this occasion there was no one on the footplate, the crew evidently having a break - hopefully having left the brakes on). (Compare this view with Image])!
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Image Location
Latitude
52.608214
Longitude
-2.150729