GW 0-6-2T at Cardiff Cathays Locomotive Depot
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GW 0-6-2T at Cardiff Cathays Locomotive Depot
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 15 Apr 1951
No. 6682 is one of the very numerous Collett GWR '5600' 0-6-2Ts that moved much of the passenger and freight traffic in the South Wales Valleys. Cathays together with its sub-Shed Radyr were the principal Locomotive Depots (coded 88A in BR/WR) of the Cardiff Valleys Division, having a combined complement in 1950 of 82 locomotives:- 2 2-8-2T, 62 0-6-2T, 15 0-6-0T and 3 0-4-2T.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.490562
Longitude
-3.183047