Birkenhead - Margate/Eastbourne express approaching Banbury
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Birkenhead - Margate/Eastbourne express approaching Banbury
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 13 May 1950
View northward at Banbury Junction Yards, towards Birmingham etc. on the GWR main line (left), also (right) the ex-GC line to Woodford Halse, Leicester and the North; these were major yards for the exchange of freight traffic between the two north-south systems. Collett-design 4-6-0 No. 7008 'Swansea Castle' (built 5/48, withdrawn 9/64) has taken on the 07.40 ex-Birkenhead Woodside at Wolverhampton and is working to Reading, whence successive SR locomotives will work the several parts of the multiple train via Redhill, then Brighton/Eastbourne and Tonbridge/Ashford/Folkestone/Margate. (The train seems to be made up mainly of SR stock).
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Image Location
Latitude
52.072122
Longitude
-1.329998