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Cranmore East Somerset Railway B43 003

Image of a 56xx class. The engine arrangement gave the locos a short wheel base for negotiating the tight curves of the South Wales valleys.

200 56xx class tank engines were built in the 1920s.The vast majority of 56xx class locos were based in South Wales which earned them the nickname "Taffy Tanks",

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Uploaded on September 27, 2015
Taken on September 26, 2015