Staveley (GC) 41H
Robinson 2-8-0 No 63706 in the yard at Staveley (GC) probably a photo I shouldn't have taken with the smoke drifting down over me but you didn't see clean freight locos much this one having left Gorton Works at the end of July from her last general overhaul.
A Great Central Railway Class 8M she was built by R Stephenson & Co (Wks No 3734) and delivered to the ROD as No 1650 in October 1918 taken over by the LNER as Class O5 No 6319 in February 1924 rebuilt to class O4/7 in May 1940 and renumbered 3706 in June 1946 and 63706 in December 1948. Rebuilt again as Class O4/8 in November 1956 and withdrawn in September 1965 been scrapped by Arnott Young Ltd Parkgate and Rawmarsh in January 1966.
Ref No 1962 08 26 002 Copyright © Keith Long - All rights reserved.
Staveley (GC) 41H
Robinson 2-8-0 No 63706 in the yard at Staveley (GC) probably a photo I shouldn't have taken with the smoke drifting down over me but you didn't see clean freight locos much this one having left Gorton Works at the end of July from her last general overhaul.
A Great Central Railway Class 8M she was built by R Stephenson & Co (Wks No 3734) and delivered to the ROD as No 1650 in October 1918 taken over by the LNER as Class O5 No 6319 in February 1924 rebuilt to class O4/7 in May 1940 and renumbered 3706 in June 1946 and 63706 in December 1948. Rebuilt again as Class O4/8 in November 1956 and withdrawn in September 1965 been scrapped by Arnott Young Ltd Parkgate and Rawmarsh in January 1966.
Ref No 1962 08 26 002 Copyright © Keith Long - All rights reserved.