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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Hatton Station: gwrhj101a
Close up of image 'gwrhj101' showing behind the up Cambrian
Coast Express with on the left a train attacking the climb up Hatton Bank and a
goods train standing on a refuge siding. 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.
Robert Ferris
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