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GWR City of Truro 4-4-0 no. 3440
Great Western Railway City of Truro 4-4-0 no.3440 at The Cheltenham Race Course station on The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
GWR City of Truro 4-4-0 no.3440 at The Cheltenham Race Course station on The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway running round its train in 2008.
There is a new platform that has been built here, behind the locomotive in 2016 (platform 2) which may not yet be in use.
GWR City of Truro 4-4-0 no.3440 at Winchcombe station on the The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway in 2008 with a train to Toddington.
This Great Western Railway 3700 Class, or City Class 4-4-0 steam locomotive was designed by William Dean and built at Swindon in 1903. It is now owned by the National Railway Museum at York.
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway has saved a part of the former Great Western Railways mainline from Birmingham via Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham. The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway runs trains between the Cheltenham Race Course station at Cheltenham to Broadway. It now has stations at Gotherington Winchcombe and Hails Abbey Halt and Toddington and Broadway (Broadway station only reopened in 2018 ).
Great Western Railway 0-6-2T
Great Western Railway 0-6-2T no.5619 leaves the Cheltenham Race Course station at the The Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway in 2008.
There is a now new platform that has been built here, behind the locomotive in early 2016 (platform 2) whichs in use in 2018 .
GWR 0-6-2T no.5619 leaving The Cheltenham Race Course station for Toddington at The Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway in 2008.
GWR 0-6-2T no.5619 at the The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway at Winchcombe in 2008
The Great Western 5600 Class 0-6-2T tank engines were designed by C.B Collett for work in South Wales. This steam locomotive was built in Swindon in 1925.
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway has saved a part of the former Great Western Railways mainline from Birmingham via Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham. The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway runs trains between the Cheltenham Race Course station at Cheltenham to Broadway. It now has stations at Gotherington Winchcombe and Hails Abbey Halt and Toddington and Broadway (Broadway station only reopened in 2018 ).
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