1958

SJ9100 : Down freight passing Dunstall Park station

taken 66 years ago, near to Wolverhampton, England

Down freight passing Dunstall Park station
Down freight passing Dunstall Park station
View SE, towards Wolverhampton (Low Level), Birmingham (Snow Hill) etc.; ex-GWR Birmingham etc. - Shrewsbury - Chester main line. Dunstall Park station was closed 4/3/68, the main line trains from Shrewsbury etc. having been diverted from 6/3/67 onto the ex-LMS main line, following electrification of the latter. The locomotive on the Class H freight is one of the original Churchward '2800' 2-8-0s, No. 2812.

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Geographical Context: Railways Category: Railway station with train other tags: Steam Locomotive Station Freight Train GWR GW 2-8-0 Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Shrewsbury Line [20] · Dunstall Hill [9] · Wolverhampton Low Level towards Shrewsbury [7] ·
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SJ9100, 276 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ben Brooksbank   (more nearby)
Date Taken
31 March 1958   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 22 July, 2011
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 9136 0027 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:36.0090N 2:7.7398W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 9136 0027
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EAST (about 90 degrees)
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