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Class 6959 Modified Hall steam locomotive 6990 WITHERSLACK HALL (running as 6988 SWITHLAND HALL) passing south through Quorn and Woodhouse station with a demonstration goods train, Great Central Railway heritage weekend Gala 'Railways at Work' (GCR August 2023).

Class 6959 Modified Hall steam locomotive 6990 WITHERSLACK HALL (running as 6988 SWITHLAND HALL) passing south through Quorn and Woodhouse station with a demonstration goods train, Great Central Railway heritage weekend Gala 'Railways at Work' (GCR August 2023).

 

Class 6959 Modified Hall steam locomotive 6990 WITHERSLACK HALL (running as 6988 SWITHLAND HALL) stopping at Quorn and Woodhouse station with a passenger service from Loughborough Central to Leicester North station, Great Central Railway heritage weekend Gala 'Railways at Work' (GCR August 2023)

Class 6959 Modified Hall steam locomotive 6990 WITHERSLACK HALL (running as 6988 SWITHLAND HALL) stopping at Quorn and Woodhouse station with a passenger service from Loughborough Central to Leicester North station, Great Central Railway heritage weekend Gala 'Railways at Work' (GCR August 2023). Locomotive 6988 is carrying shed code 82E Bristol Barrow Road. Return trip at Quorn and Woodhouse shown below.

 

6990 Witherslack Hall GWR Modified Hall steam locomotive

Preparing the double header of 6990 and 6023 (NYMR Autumn Steam Gala Sept. 2019)

GWR Modified Hall 6990 Witherslack Hall was mainly based at 81A Old Oak Common motive power depot where it often pulled London Paddington to Oxford, Bristol and to the West Country express passenger trains.

 

Portrait of 6990 Witherslack Hall GWR Modified Hall steam locomotive NYMR Grosmont station

Grosmont station, 6990 Witherslack Hall leading King 6023 King Edward II with a double headed passenger train for Pickering

(NYMR Autumn Steam Gala Sept. 2019)

Passenger train leaving Grosmont station NYMR 6990 Witherslack Hall GWR Modified Hall steam locomotive

6990 leaving Grosmont station and entering Grosmont tunnel with the double header train for Pickering (NYMR Autumn Steam Gala Sept. 2019)

 

Passenger train entering Goathland station NYMR 6990 Witherslack Hall GWR Modified Hall steam locomotive

(NYMR Autumn Steam Gala Sept. 2019)

 

Great Central Railway - GCR workshops and shed yard at Loughborough: 6990 WITHERSLACK HALL once of 81A Old Oak Common locomotive depot serving Paddington Station in London. Ex GWR Hawksworth designed 6990 was built at Swindon Works in 1949 as a development of the 4900 Hall Class locomotives.

 

Technical detail specifications of locomotive 6990: Boiler pressure of 6990: 225 lbf/sq.in., Weight of 6990: loco 75.8 tons, tender 47.3 tons, Wheel diameter of 6990: 3' 2", 6' 0'', Valve gear of 6990: Stephenson piston valves, Cylinders of 6990 (diameter x stroke): 18½" x 30" (O), Tractive effort of 6990: 27270 lbf., Power classification of 6990: Class D 5MT

 

Great Central Railway - GCR workshops and shed yard at Loughborough: 6990 WITHERSLACK HALL

The boiler of 6990 (date ?)

 

Great to see Modified Hall Class steam locomotive 6990 WITHERSLACK HALL all together and looking great! (Loughborough, Sept. 2017)

 

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