GWR 'Metropolitan' 2-4-0T dumped at Swindon Works, 1947
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GWR 'Metropolitan' 2-4-0T dumped at Swindon Works, 1947
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 23 Mar 1947
Amongst many other GWR locomotives withdrawn soon after World War Two and dumped at Swindon awaiting scrapping was No. 3581, built Wolverhampton 1/1899 and withdrawn 11/45.
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Image Location
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51.558141
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-1.805365