GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Olton Station: gwro1584

Ex-Great Western Railway 2-6-2T 5101 class No 4158 crosses the Ulverley Green Road plate girder bridge as it leaves the Relief Down platform at Olton station at 8:46 a.m. on Saturday 9th September 1963 on the Solihull (8.42 a.m.) to Handsworth via Birmingham Snow Hill. The train consisted of six corridor coaches in British Rail maroon livery. At nationalisation in December 1947 this locomotive was known to have been allocated to Severn Tunnel Junction shed (STJ).

Robert Ferris

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