LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare
Route
Stratford on Avon Station: smjsa323
Ex-GWR 2-8-0 No 3806, with full wagons of iron ore, leaves
the new south curve onto the line to Honeybourne on 25th April1961. The former
route to Broom which crossed the ex-GWR line can be just be seen in the left
background. The line to Broom was closed on 13th June 1960 and within four
years the track had been lifted throughout its entirety. A member of the GWR
28xx class, No 3806 was built at Swindon works in August 1939 and was to remain
in service until December 1963 when it was withdrawn from 84C Banbury shed to
be scrapped by J Cashmore's of Great Bridge.
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