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

Shipston-on-Stour Station: gwrss570

Looking along the defunct passenger station with the local goods service preparing to return to Moreton-in-Marsh tender first

Looking along the defunct passenger station with the local goods service preparing to return to Moreton-in-Marsh tender first. Every week the occassional freight working pottered along the branch from Moreton in Marsh until the line finally closed in May 1960. Two weeks prior to closure British Railways Standard Class 2 Mogul No 78008 prepares to leave Shipston with a freight. Built at Darlington works in March 1953 it lasted only thirteen years in service before being withdrawn in October 1966 from Oxley shed to be scrapped in January 1967 by J Cashmore of Great Bridge.

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