Newport Station, with the Up Red Dragon Express - 10 Oct 1958
Photo reference number: 2379
View NW, from the main Down platform; ex-Great Western main lines from London, Bristol, etc., also Gloucester, Birmingham, etc., and Hereford, Shrewsbury, and the north-west, to Cardiff, Swansea, and West Wales. Several lines from the Eastern and Western Valleys also came to Newport, making it one of the busiest railway stations in Britain, with about 250 trains (two-thirds being freight trains, which passed on the two central lines) passing each way every 24 hours. The 'Red Dragon' was the 07:30 Carmarthen to Paddington, on this day headed (from Swansea) by BR Standard Class 7 'Britannia' 4-6-2 No. 70029 'Shooting Star'.
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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