GWR Route: The North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Stratford on Avon to Hatton

Stratford on Avon Station: gwrsa1503

An unidentified ex-GWR 4-6-0 Castle class locomotive is seen arriving at Stratford on Avon at the head of the 9:15am Wolverhampton to Penzance and Kingswear during the mid-1950s. This service was the successor to the 10:00am service from Wolverhampton initiated in 1908, now called the Cornishman, and which, apart from brief periods in wartime and after, had run continuously ever since. Initially hauled by 4-4-0 classes, then 4-6-0 Saint classes, this service had been allocated to Castle class locomotives since the early 1930s.

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