Ex GWR 5700 class locomotive 9683 near Winson Green, 1960
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Ex GWR 5700 class locomotive 9683 near Winson Green, 1960
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: Unknown
Working a local freight train, on the former Great Western Railway main line between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. More than 800 locomotives of this class were built by the GWR between 1929 and 1948 and they were the company's workhorse locomotive for local freight and branch line passenger work. On the left a classic GWR semaphore signal, tubular steel post with finial, and slightly tapered lower quadrant arms.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.494206
Longitude
-1.925428