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A local service for communities along the line. In the Pendon period railways provided a range of local services and facilities for people sending or receiving goods by rail. These were served by stopping freight trains, that dropped off and collected vehicles. These were called `pick-up goods trains’, and were a leisurely exercise serving all the stations on a particular line.
This train, the Great Western No. 2323 is one of William Dean’s celebrated ‘2301’ class of 0-6-0 goods engines, first introduced in 1883. There were 260 of these locomotives in all. Some were still running into the British Railways era, mainly in Wales.