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There's Steam in them there hills!
Line testing on the Wrexham to Shrewsbury section by the Standard locomotive 70000 Britannia.
Image: © Geoff Evans
Taken: 14 Mar 2012
0.15 miles
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Attentative footplate Crew
Road proving on the Wrexham to Shrewsbury section; Standard 4-6-2 locomotive 70000 Britannia approaches a red signal just short of the A5152 overbridge at Esless.
Image: © Geoff Evans
Taken: 14 Mar 2012
0.16 miles
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Shrewsbury Flyer
175114 Multiple heads for Shrewsbury leaving Wrexham.
Image: © Geoff Evans
Taken: 13 Mar 2012
0.16 miles
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Bersham Road Bridge
Although barely discernible the mile post indicates the distance from London, just before the Bersham Road over bridge, looking towards Wrexham.
Image: © Geoff Evans
Taken: 13 Mar 2012
0.16 miles
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Down the Bank
Approaching Wrexham from the Shrewsbury direction this D.M.U. train led by 150253 is bound for Holyhead via Chester.
Image: © Geoff Evans
Taken: 14 Mar 2012
0.17 miles
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Up local freight near Croes Newydd Junctions, Wrexham
View northwards, towards Wrexham (Exchange) and Chester; ex-GW Birmingham - Shrewsbury - Chester main line. The Yards and Depot at Croes Newydd dealt with the traffic off the several industrial and colliery branches near Wrexham. Here 'modern' GW '1600' class 0-6-0T No. 1660 (built 2/55, withdrawn 2/66) brings a goods along the Up Slow line at Croes Newydd South Junction.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 19 Apr 1962
0.17 miles
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Wrexham Cemetery
Wrexham Cemetery is South East of Wrexham town centre on the
Ruabon road. It is bounded on three sides by public highways withon the fourth by the railway line. It was originally set out in the late 18th Century.
Image: © Eirian Evans
Taken: 27 Nov 2007
0.18 miles
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Wrexham-Shrewsbury railway
The Wrexham to Shrewsbury line at the Bersham Road, near Bryn Offa
Image: © Eirian Evans
Taken: 27 Nov 2007
0.18 miles
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Bryn Offa, Wrexham
Bryn Offa is a small ex-council owned housing estate in the south-west of Wrexham
Image: © Eirian Evans
Taken: 27 Nov 2007
0.18 miles
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Up freight at Croes Newydd Junction, Wrexham, 1966
View NE towards Wrexham (General) and Chester, on the ex-GWR Chester - Shrewsbury - Birmingham etc. main line. By 1966 this had become a BR(LMR) line and almost all ex-GWR locomotives had been ousted by LMSR or BR Standard types, such as this Stanier Class 5 4-6-0, No. 45198 (built 10/35, withdrawn 9/67).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 30 Jul 1966
0.18 miles