37013 Stoke Gifford 01-04-97
37013 waits for the road at Stoke Gifford down reception with 6T51, the morning trip from Stoke Tip to Swindon on 1st April 1997. Stoke Tip was used for storing used ballast and usually received a few trains each weekday. The empties would return to Swindon.
The former D6713 was new to Stratford on 20th March 1961, a product of English Electric Vulcan Foundry at Newton On Willows. It stayed a Eastern Region machine until November 1998 when it came under Toton's control. Withdrawal came in 29th October 1999. and finally scrapped at EMR Kinsbury in February 2007.
Pentax 6 x 7 Slide Sxcan
© Neil Higson
37013 Stoke Gifford 01-04-97
37013 waits for the road at Stoke Gifford down reception with 6T51, the morning trip from Stoke Tip to Swindon on 1st April 1997. Stoke Tip was used for storing used ballast and usually received a few trains each weekday. The empties would return to Swindon.
The former D6713 was new to Stratford on 20th March 1961, a product of English Electric Vulcan Foundry at Newton On Willows. It stayed a Eastern Region machine until November 1998 when it came under Toton's control. Withdrawal came in 29th October 1999. and finally scrapped at EMR Kinsbury in February 2007.
Pentax 6 x 7 Slide Sxcan
© Neil Higson