Up freight train passing through Newport High Street Station - 14 Aug 1963
Photo reference number: 2392
View SW, towards Cardiff, etc., and the Western Valleys; ex-GWR South Wales main line. Fifty years ago [Edit: written in 2011], and earlier, trains like this were passing through Newport constantly. This Class F train is headed by an original Churchward '2800' 2-8-0 (No. 2818, built 12/05), about 50 years older than the 2-10-0 depicted in ST3088 : Up freight train at Newport High Street Station on the same day. This particular example of a '2800' is preserved at the National Railway Museum.
[Edit - 2818 was transferred later to the Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon.]
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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