Ex-Great Western 'Modified Hall' 4-6-0 entering Marylebone during the 1948 Exchange Trials
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Ex-Great Western 'Modified Hall' 4-6-0 entering Marylebone during the 1948 Exchange Trials
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 25 Jun 1948
View northward just outside the terminus of the ex-GC London - Leicester - Sheffield main line. No. 6990 'Witherslack Hall' was on test on the 08.25 from Manchester London Road via Sheffield Victoria, during the trials of Mixed Traffic locomotives. (See Image] for further details). Note that I was not the only one interested. (No. 6990 was a Hawksworth 'Modified Hall', built 4/48, withdrawn 12/65 and is preserved on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough).
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