MY LIFE IN TRAINS
My Story - Part Twenty
Paddington to Shrewsbury
In early October 1961 I went on a week long geography and geology field trip with a couple of my classmates to the Preston Mountford Field Centre in Shropshire. We went by train from Paddington to Shrewsbury, and I managed to take some photos on the journey and at Shrewsbury, before the Field Centre coach picked us up.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
Captured from a train heading for Shrewsbury, GWR King 4-6-0 No 6005 'King George II' speeds through High Wycombe towards Paddington on 11 October 1961.
GWR 5100 Class 2-6-2T No 5174 on a down freight at Leamington.
GWR 5100 Class 2-6-2T No 5152 on the middle road at Wolverhampton on 11 October 1961.
Taken from a Shrewsbury bound train, LMSR Fairburn 2-6-4T No 42069 waits at Wellington on 11 October 1961 on the Stafford branch train.
BR Class 3 2-6-2T No 82005 at Sutton Bridge Junction, Shrewsbury on 11 October 1961, with Shrewsbury engine shed to the right of the train.
BR Class 5 4-6-0 No 73096 heads into Shrewsbury at Sutton Bridge Junction on 11 October 1961.
GWR 5700 Class 0-6-0PT No 3602 heads a freight into Shrewsbury at Sutton Bridge Junction on 11 October 1961.
LMSR Jubilee 4-6-0 No 45567 'South Australia' puts up a smokescreen leaving Shrewsbury towards Crewe on 11 October 1961.
BR Class 4 4-6-0 No 75051 reaches Shrewsbury from the north on 11 October 1961.
GWR 5700 Class 0-6-0PT No 4693 heads through Shrewsbury on 11 October 1961.
