GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Warwick Station: gwrw370

GWR 2-8-0 28xx class No 2872 pulls slowly out of the up refuge siding with a Group 10 classified freight train circa 1930s. Group 10 coded trains (as shown by the lamp positions on the buffer beam and top of the smoke door) included ballast train, freight train or inspection train requiring to stop in between signal boxes (in the section) or branch freight train. Copyright © by John Daniel 2000.

Number 2872 was built at Swindon works in November 1918 and remained in service until August 1963 when it was withdrawn from Severn Tunnel Junction shed to be scrapped the following year, June 1964, by Cooper's Metals of Sharpness.

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