Tanks for the memory!
Introduction
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Tanks for the memory!
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 21 Apr 2022
On the Severn Valley Railway running bunker first towards Oldbury Viaduct. The locomotives are No. 813 (green) and WD 71516 - Welsh Guardsman (black). No. 813 is an 0-6-0ST built in 1900 by Hudswell, Clark of Leeds for the Port Talbot Railway. WD 71516 is a War Department 0-6-0ST 'Austerity' built in 1944 by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Following wartime service it worked at various National Coal Board sites befor being acquired by the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum. It latterly moved to the ownership if Felinfoel Brewery and is currently a temporary resident at the Severn Valley Railway.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.523515
Longitude
-2.418535