Newport High Street Station from the west - 14 April 1962


Photo reference number: 2387

View NE from a train from Cardiff leaving the Stow Hill Tunnel, towards the station: ex-GW South Wales main line. On the right is '8750' class 0-6-0PT No. 9616 (built 9/45 and withdrawn 8/65) shunting the Goods Yard, while a Down Class F freight approaches on the Down Through with 43XX 2-6-0 No. 7307 and '9400' class 0-6-0T No. 9494 is visible in the yard.

Photo by Ben Brooksbank. Before he died in 2018, Ben uploaded an extensive collection of his work onto the website www.geograph.org.uk to make the photos available for enthusiasts. The Newport images are reproduced here and are freely useable under the Creative Commons license. There is no need to acknowledge the license if sharing the images here because these versions have the license details at the bottom.

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Ben Brooksbank's Newport railway photos