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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Acocks Green & South Yardley Station: gwrag2438
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Ex-GWR 4-6-0 No 6017 'King Edward IV' passes through the
station on the down main on 4 th July 1959 with the 11:10am Paddington to
Birkenhead (Woodside) service. The King will come off the train at
Wolverhampton Low Level being normally replaced by a Castle Class locomotive
for the remaining 84 miles as the route north was restricted to an axle weight
which was less than of King Class locomotives. The latter were restricted in
GWR days to 'hatched red' routes which comprised the main lines from Paddington
to Bristol Temple Meads, both via Bath and via Badminton; Reading to Devonport
via Newbury; Bristol Temple Meads to Taunton; and Paddington to Wolverhampton
Low Level via Bicester. Further routes were raised to this category by British
Railways: from Wolverhampton to Chester via Shrewsbury; and Bristol to
Shrewsbury via Abergavenny. Built by Swindon works to Lot 243 in June 1928, No
6017 was to remain in service until July 1962 when it was withdrawn from 84A
Stafford Road shed in Wolverhampton to be scrapped by Cox & Danks of
Langley Green, Oldbury.
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