GWR Route: Moreton-in-Marsh to Shipston-on-Stour

Moreton-in-Marsh Station: gwrmm984

View of the Shipston-on-Stour branch locomotive, GWR 0-6-0ST No 47, standing under the water tank at Moreton-in-Marsh. The locomotive was typical of its day in offering little protection for the crew in clement weather having no roof whilst the front weather board with its two circular windows were as much a place to mount the numerous gages and controls as to offer protection. The rear timber weather board similarly was more lkely to have been installed to increase the capacity of the coal bunker.

Colin Maggs states in his book 'Branch Lines of Warwickshire' that the engine was first built for the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway in 1849, was later rebuilt at Wolverhampton in 1875 by the GWR and was withdrawn in 1889. C1887

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