'5600' class 0-6-2T at Aberbeeg Locomotive Depot
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'5600' class 0-6-2T at Aberbeeg Locomotive Depot
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 15 Apr 1951
One of the 200 Collett '5600' class, which in their day dominated the railways of the South Wales Valleys, No. 6685 was built 10/28 and withdrawn 9/64. Aberbeeg (BR/WR 86H) handled Ebbw Vale traffic and had an allocation of 36 in 1950:- 8 2-8-0T, 4 2-6-2T, 1 0-6-2T and 23 0-6-0T.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.703058
Longitude
-3.144591