WESTERN REGION: 9.25am ABERYSTWYTH-PADDINGTON
(THE CAMBRIAN COAST EXPRESS)
Engine: 4300 class 2-6-0 No 5369
Banked to Westbury by Manor class 4-6-0 No 7823
Load: 12 coaches, 396 tons tare, 425 tons full
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miles sch m/sec mi/hr
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0.00 WELSHPOOL 0 0:00
1.46 mp 32.5 3:57 41
2.76 Buttington 5:37 slack
3.94 mp 15 7:54 31/30
4.94 mp 14 9:52 33/24
5.69 Briedden 11:44 slack
6.44 mp 12.5 (Plas-y-Court) 13:11 30
7.19 mp 11.75 14:40 30
37
8.64 Westbury-on-Severn arr 18:17 Banker
dep 20:02 Off
10.94 mp 8 24:33 49
12.35 Yockleton 26:05 58
13.44 mp 5.5 27:12 60
14.85 Hanwood 29:01 slack
16.86 Hookgate SB 44/37
17.94 mp 1 sigs 30*
18.96 Sutton Bridge Jc SB 37:17 slack
19.74 Abbey Foregate Jc SB 39:43 slack
20.89 Belvidere Bridge 42:09 40
p.w.s 37*
23.14 Upton Magna 45:27 46
24.39 mp 166.5 46:58 56
25.67 Walcot 48:24 47
27.93 Admaston Halt sigs 20*
29.55 WELLINGTON 57:33 34
30.64 mp 160.25 (Ketley Jc) 59:34 31
32.50 Oakengates 63:40 24
33.65 Hollinswood SB 66:18 24/25
34.65 Madeley Jc SB 68:08 48
36.57 Shifnal 70:14 62
38.39 mp 152.5 71:52 70
40.00 Cosford 73:20 61
41.41 Albrighton 74:52 48
42.89 mp 148 77:03 36
44.38 Codsall 79:00 51
45.08 Birches & Bilbrook 62
46.64 mp 144.25 (Oxley N) 81:23 56
47.87 Stafford Rd Jc SB 82:56 easy
sigs
49.12 WOLVERHAMPTON LOW LEVEL 76 86:13
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Date: Saturday 4th July 1959
dep: Welshpool 12.06pm..11 Late
arr: Wolverhampton 1.32pm..21 Late
Booked for two locos, 5369 took 12 coaches for 425
tons full, unaided apart from a push up the hill to
Westbury-on-Severn. The sounds she made climbing up
to Hollinswood, and again up Albrighton bank, were
as good as anything I have heard from the larger
4-6-0's. An truly valiant effort.
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