Danygraig Locomotive Depot, with ex-Powlesland & Mason dock tank
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Danygraig Locomotive Depot, with ex-Powlesland & Mason dock tank
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 17 Sep 1946
The former Rhondda & Swansea Bay Railway Danygraig Depot at Swansea Docks was unique for its strange locomotives. No. 942 was an 0-4-0T taken over by the GWR in 1924: it was built by Hawthorn, Leslie in 1903, renumbered 1153 by BR/WR and withdrawn in 10/55. In 1947 Danygraig (DG) Depot (coded 87C by BR) had an allocation of 32:- 1 2-8-0T, 1 0-8-2T, 15 0-6-0T, 2 0-6-2T and 13 0-4-0T. of which no less than 13 were acquired (non-GWR) engines.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.622149
Longitude
-3.88811