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GWR Route: Stratford on Avon to Honeybourne

Stratford-on-Avon Racecourse Platform: gwr_src1525

Ex-LMS 0-6-0 4F No 44043 is seen on a down freight about to cross the former GWR lines on 11th June 1957

Ex-LMS 0-6-0 4F No 44043 is seen at the head of a down freight service about to cross the former GWR lines on 11th June 1957. Stratford-on-Avon Racecourse Platform can just be seen under the former SMJ bridge on the line from Broom to Stratford-upon-Avon. The wagons on the left, a cattle wagon and a vent van, are standing in the transfer sidings. Built as LMS No 4043 at Derby works in February 1925 No 44043 remained in service until June 1965 when it was withdrawn from 16E Kirkby-in-Ashfield shed to be scrapped in October 1965 by J Cashmore of Great Bridge.

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