GW former Brecon & Merthyr 0-6-2T at Newport Ebbw Junction Locomotive Depot
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Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 15 Apr 1951
No. 435 was built 2/21 as B&M No. 49, acquired by the GWR in 7/22 as No. 1668, renumbered 435 in 1947-50 and withdrawn in 2/54. Here in 1951 it is on an outside pit at the major Ebbw Junction Depot, which in 1950 (coded 86A) had an allocation of 143:- 12 4-6-0, 28 2-8-0 (25 GW, 3 ex-WD), 2 2-6-0 (1 GW, 1 LMS-type), 4 0-6-0, 11 2-8-2T, 29 2-8-0T, 7 2-6-2T, 7 0-6-2T, 43 0-6-0T; also 3 Diesel railcars. One of the 2-8-0s is behind.