Condemned locomotives outside Swindon Works
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Condemned locomotives outside Swindon Works
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 29 Nov 1964
In early snow on 29 November 1964, a string of condemned locomotives is headed by an LMS 'foreigner', ex-Midland 4F 0-6-0 No. 43940; behind it are ex-GW 0-6-0Ts and a 2-8-0T. Fellow members of the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society are looking round - far more interested than the staff of the Western Region, who are only too glad to be rid of these old steam engines. (The 4F has the diagonal white stripes painted on its cab sides which was a warning to indicate such locomotives were forbidden to venture under the wires on the WCML).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.55859
Longitude
-1.805075