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Ex-GWR 4-6-0 Modified Hall class No 6962 'Soughton Hall is seen arriving at Platform 5 with the 9 45am (Saturdays Only) Paddington to Wrexham service on 12th August 1961. The train had used the original route via Reading and Oxford to reach Banbury and would continue calling at Wolverhampton Low Level, Wellington, Shrewsbury, Gobawen, Ruabon before reaching its destination. Built at Swindon works to Lot 350 in April 1944 No 6962 remained in service until January 1963 when, as the first Modified Hall to retire, it was withdrawn from Old Oak Common shed to be scrapped in May 1963 at Swindon works.
Ex-GWR 4-6-0 6959 class No 6965 'Thirlestaine Hall' readies to depart Snow Hill station on 23rd November 1963. Built by Swindon works to Lot 350 in July 1944, No 6965 remained in service until October 1965 when it was withdrawn from 82E Barrow Road shed in Bristol to be scrapped by J Cashmore of Newport.
Great Western Railway Station locomotive 6970 "WHADDON HALL" stopped at Eastleigh Staion with a cross country train from the north to Bournemouth and Poole. The locomotive would have been put on the train at Oxford and was built in 1944.
No.6972Beningbrough Hall at Bristol Temple Meads, November 1963.
6972 entered traffic in October 1947, one of the last Halls to enter traffic before Nationalisation.
It was withdrawn from service in March 1964 from Bristol St Phillips Marsh shed 82B, the shed itself closing only 3 months later on 13/6/64.
Ex-GWR 'Modified Hall' 4-6-0 No 6976 'Graythwaite Hall' stands in Rugby Central's goods yard having just shunted a single fish van into the Explorator warehouse. To carry out this working No 6976 has stabled its train on the main line, crossed over to the goods yard which was situated on the down side of the main line. It would then rejoin its train crossing the line between paths of trains working both north and south through Rugby. The reason No 6976 had stabled its train on the mail line not the relief line was because no through passenger train was due at this time, and through freights would be routed around the obstruction via the loop - as they typically would be to avoid the manoeuvering of the Nottingham-Rugby local as it prepared to return northward.
British Railways Steam Locomotive 6979 Class GW 'Modified Hall' 6959 Class 4-6-0 in Leicester Central in 1961 - 5.20pm to Woodford Halse passing under MR Burton branch - 17/08/1961.
It's a 3-man job to get 6980 Llanrumney Hall moving on the turntable at Banbury. Exact date unknown but the lack of nameplates and hand-painted cab number suggest it's close to its withdrawal date in October 1965
