Shrewsbury (General) Station south end, with two BR 4-6-0s, 1965
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Shrewsbury (General) Station south end, with two BR 4-6-0s, 1965
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 16 Sep 1965
View SE towards Wellington etc. to left, Hereford (also Bewdley and Welshpool) to right; the vast Severn Bridge Junction signal-box (behind the enormous water-tank) stands in the triangle formed by the Shrewsbury-avoiding line. Shrewsbury General was owned jointly by the GWR & LNWR, as was the line to Wellington whence the LNWR coming from Crewe branched off the GWR West Midland main line that ran from London etc. via Birmingham and Wolverhampton to Chester and Birkenhead. Also Joint GW&LNW was the main line to Hereford and the line via Buttington to Welshpool on the Cambrian Railway to the Welsh Coast. Only the Severn Valley line to Bewdley was solely GWR and this was closed in 9/63 - before this photograph was taken. The two BR Standard Class 4MT 4-6-0s (Nos. 75016 and 75063 (respectively built 1/52 and 6/57, withdrawn 7/67 and 8/68) were probably on their way to the GW&LNW Joint Locomotive Depot, which was at Coleham on the Hereford line.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.700726
Longitude
-2.74402