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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Birmingham Snow Hill - British Railways Period Locomotives:
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Ex-GWR 4-6-0 Castle class No 4083 'Abbotsbury Castle' is
seen blowing off steam whilst standing at Platform 7 at the head of an up
express service to Paddington on 30th May 1955. On the GWR's pre-building list
of forthcoming locomotives to be built No 4083 was to have been named
'Oystermouth Castle'. Built at Swindon works in May 1925 No 4083 was first
allocated to Old Oak Common shed before being recorded at Canton shed in
Cardiff in August 1950 and Newton Abbot shed in March 1959. Allocated again to
Canton shed in Cardiff No 4083 was withdrawn from service in December 1961 to
be scrapped immediately at Swindon works.
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