Newcastle - Cardiff Express leaving Newport High Street - 10 Oct 1958
Photo reference number: 2380
View NE, towards everywhere north, east, and south; ex-GWR South Wales main line. The 08:15 from Newcastle-on-Tyne came via York, Sheffield, Derby, Birmingham, and Gloucester, and was due at Cardiff at 16:20. The 4-6-0 (No. 5980 'Dingley Hall', built 9/38, withdrawn 9/62) will have taken over from an LMR locomotive at Gloucester (Central).
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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