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Manisa TCDD | 1989

A midday Aegean sun falls on ex Reichsbahn BR52 56547 soon after departure upon the return Manisa-Alaşehır goods with respectable load.

Commercial scan of home-developed original / 35mm Ilford FP4.

10th May 1989

 

56547 is WLF (Floridsdorf, Wien) 16887/44 as DRB 52.7434

Of the fifty-three BR52 delivered to Turkey 1943-44 forty-three of these were Reichsbahn locos, initially on loan, becoming 56511-56553, the remainder received into TCDD stock directly from factories.

56547 has been for some time plinthed at Uşak station on it's regular stamping ground.

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