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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Earlswood Lakes Station: gwrel2877
Ex-GWR 4-6-0 No 6956 'Mottram Hall' approaches Earlswood
Lake station on an up Type 6 partially fitted freight on 10th February 1965. A
Type 4 working was classified by British Railways, according to their 1962
Reporting Codes, as an 'Express freight train partly fitted, with the
automatic brake operative on NOT less than 20% of the vehicles. Maximum speed
45 mph. Built at Swindon works to Lot 340 in March 1943, No 6956 was to
remain in service until December 1965 when it was withdrawn from 81F Oxford
shed to be scrapped by J Cashmore of Newport.
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