Newport High Street Station, with Down freight passing - 14 Aug 1963
Photo reference number: 2394
View NE, towards Maindee and everywhere north, east, and south; ex-GWR South Wales main line, Eastern and Western Valleys, etc. The station had been radically re-arranged in 1961, so this Down Class F is not running 'wrong line' because the former Up Main Platform line is now the Down Main. The locomotive is Churchward '4200' 2-8-0T No. 4277, which was built 4/20 and withdrawn 6/64 but was preserved. It worked on the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway, but is now on the Dartmouth Steam Railway, named 'Hercules'. (See also, e.g. ST3088 : Newport High Street Station, with Up freight running through).
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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