GWR Route: The North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Stratford Upon Avon to Hatton

Stratford on Avon Station: gwrsa497

Ex-GWR 0-6-0 2251 class No 3217 is seen at the Birmingham end of the down platform at the head of a local passenger service to Birmingham in December 1964. The points are set to allow the train to continue 'wrong road' along the down line to at least the junction with the goods yard indicating that there might have been engineering works in place on the up line requiring this unusual practice. Built at Swindon works December 1948, the last month of the GWR's existence as an independent company, No 3217 was withdrawn seventeen years later from Leamington Spa shed in November 1964 before being scrapped the following December by J Cashmore of Great Bridge.

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