Modified 'Hall' No. 6990 'Witherslack Hall' in a bad way at Loughborough GCR, 1992
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Modified 'Hall' No. 6990 'Witherslack Hall' in a bad way at Loughborough GCR, 1992
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 5 Sep 1992
This preserved locomotive was built 4/48 and employed straight away in the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, then ran on normal BR services until withdrawn 12/65. It was saved from Woodham's Barry scrapyard and eventually acquired by the heritage Great Central Railway. It was restored at Loughborough and ran regularly until 8/92 - shortly before I photographed it there, when it developed 'boiler problems' that took many years to rectify - until 2014 in fact.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.77091
Longitude
-1.196299