GWR Route: The North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Stratford on Avon to Hatton

Stratford on Avon Station: gwrsa1493

View looking northwards to Wilmecote showing the recently opened island platforms on the left as two trains are seen standing in the station. In the down platform is an unidentified 39xx class locomotive running bunker first on a two-coach train. It was one of twenty locomotives rebuilt from Dean 2301 class 0-6-0 tender engines between 1907 and 1910. The great majority were allocated at Tyseley or Wolverhampton in the period prior to 1914, after which they were also allocated to Leamington Spa and Stratford on Avon sheds. They were a familiar sight until the late 1920s when they were replaced by the 51xx class of 2-6-2T Prairie locomotives.

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