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✓ Published: 14-May-2024
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A 78-year-old steam engine brought day-trippers to Shrewsbury via a very circular route. It sat at Coton Hill sidings in the county town before steaming on its journey<br/>The train, entitled the Welsh Marches Express, started its journey behind a diesel locomotive at Coventry, then head down to Bristol via Leamington Spa, Oxford and Bath.<br/>Once in Bristol, express passenger locomotive No. 34046 Braunton, named after a village in Devon, was attached to the front for the journey to and from Shrewsbury.<br/>Built in 1946 to pull trains for the Southern Railway between London and destinations such as Exeter, Plymouth and Bournemouth, it worked for 19 years before being sent to scrap. After languishing at a South Wales scrapyard for 22 years, it was bought in 1988 and returned to working order in 2007.
A 78-year-old steam engine brought day-trippers to Shrewsbury via a very circular route. It sat at Coton Hill sidings in the county town before steaming on its journey<br/>The train, entitled the Welsh Marches Express, started its journey behind a diesel locomotive at Coventry, then head down to Bristol via Leamington Spa, Oxford and Bath.<br/>Once in Bristol, express passenger locomotive No. 34046 Braunton, named after a village in Devon, was attached to the front for the journey to and from Shrewsbury.<br/>Built in 1946 to pull trains for the Southern Railway between London and destinations such as Exeter, Plymouth and Bournemouth, it worked for 19 years before being sent to scrap. After languishing at a South Wales scrapyard for 22 years, it was bought in 1988 and returned to working order in 2007.
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