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Newport Station, with the Up Red Dragon Express - 10 Oct 1958
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 Wes...
Newcastle - Cardiff Express leaving Newport High Street - 10 Oct 1958
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...
Down iron ore train entering Newport - 5 June 1961
View eastward, on the ex-GW main lines towards Maindee Junctions/Hereford/Shrewsbury, Severn Tunnel Junction/Gloucester, etc./Swindon, etc./Bristol, etc. Running on the Down Through line, the class H train is headed by ex-WD 2-8-0 No. 90672 of Woodfo...
'South Wales Pullman' entering Newport High Street - 5 June 1961
View eastwards on the Down side towards the Usk Bridge and all points except west. The South Wales Pullman, which left Paddington at 08:50 and reached Swansea at 13:10, was introduced in 6/55 and ran as a steam-hauled train until 1962 but was withdra...
Newport High Street Station, with Up freight running through - 5 June 1961
View SW, towards Cardiff, Western Valleys, etc.; ex-GW South Wales main line. In the 1950s and 1960s freight trains were running constantly through here; it would seem that few passengers were about, at least on this day. The Class F freight - its ta...
Up freight passing through Newport Station - 5 June 1961
View westward, towards Cardiff, etc., also the Western Valleys: ex-GW South Wales main line. The Class F freight is headed by Collett-modified (93XX) Churchward 2-6-0 No. 7322 (built 2/32 as No. 9300, renumbered 3/57, withdrawn 11/61 - six months aft...
Smart 2-8-0T bringing Up freight through Newport Station - 5 June 1961
View westward, towards Cardiff, on the ex-GW South Wales main line, also the Western Valleys lines. Collett '4200' 2-8-0T No. 5243 (built 8/24) - evidently ex-Works - is bringing a typical Class H freight on the Up Through line. Photo by Ben Brook...
'8750' class 0-6-0PT on Pilot duty at Newport High Street Station - 14 April 1962
View SW at the east end of the station. No. 9662 was built 4/48 and lasted until 9/65. 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 availa...
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...