GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hatton Station: gwrhj101a

Close up of image 'gwrhj101' showing the activity behind the up Cambrian Coast Express. Waiting in the up goods running loop for the express to pass is a freight train headed by what appears to be a GWR Churchward 2-6-0 43xx class, while a down local passenger train heads for Birmingham.

The coach in the foreground is the compartment side of a third class bow ended corridor carriage, typical of those built by the Great Western around 1930, while the third coach in the train is the corridor side of a similar carriage. The second and fourth coaches are later large windowed excursion stock, which were first introduced in the late 1930s, notice how the windows extend from the waist almost to the cantrail on these carriages.

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