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Newport High Street Station from the west - 14 April 1962
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 On the right is '8750' class 0-6-0PT No. 9616 (built 9/45 and withdrawn 8/65) shunting the Goods Yard, while a Down Class F freight appr...
Standard GW 0-6-0PT at Newport High Street Station - 14 Aug 1963
View NW at the west end of the station. No. 3662 is an '8750' class 0-6-0PT, built 2/40 - one of hundreds to be seen all over the GWR/WR. Photo by Ben Brooksbank. Before he died in 2018, Ben uploaded an extensive collection of his work onto the we...
Down iron ore train entering Newport High Street Station - 14 Aug 1963
View eastward at Newport East across the Usk Bridge; ex-GWR South Wales Main Line. The train exemplifies the constant flow of iron ore from Banbury and its surroundings to the steelworks at Cardiff, Port Talbot, etc. It is headed by a new BR Standard...
A 2-8-2T westbound entering Newport High Street with a Down train of condemned wagons - 14 Aug 1963
The train is a sign of the changing times, as is the recently (1961) installed modern signalling and the abandoned Newport East Box. The locomotive is Collett '7240' class 2-8-2T No. 7249, rebuilt 11/38 from Churchward '4200' class 2-8-0T No. 4209 (b...
Down fast freight entering Newport High Street - still with a 'dirty old steam engine' - 14 Aug 1963
View eastward, towards the Usk Bridge and all points except west: ex-GWR South Wales main line. By August 1963 steam traction on important workings such as Class C freight was very much in decline, but here unkempt Collett 4-6-0 No. 5914 'Ripon Hall'...
Up freight train passing through Newport High Street Station - 14 Aug 1963
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 Churchw...
Up mineral passing Newport High Street Station - 14 Aug 1963
View SW, towards Cardiff, etc. on the ex-GWR South Wales main line, also the Western Valleys. The Class H train of coal in modern 16-ton steel wagons is on the Up Through line and has probably come from Rogerstone' headed by Collett '2884' class 2-8-...
Newport High Street Station, with Down freight passing - 14 Aug 1963
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...
Wood Lane (London) milk empties entering Newport High Street - 14 Aug 1963
View eastward, to the now derelict Newport East Box, the Usk Bridge, and all points except west; ex-GWR South Wales main line. The train is headed by Hawksworth 'Modified Hall' 4-6-0 No. 7913 'Little Wyrley Hall' (built 3/50, withdrawn 3/65). Phot...
'Merry-go-round' iron-ore empties passing Newport Station with two Type 3 Diesels - 14 Aug 1963
View eastwards, towards the east, north, and SW generally; ex-GWR South Wales main line. To supply the vast new Steelworks opened by Richard Thomas & Baldwin in 1962 at Llanwern, imported iron ore brought into Newport Docks had to be moved for a shor...