Old Photos of Witham

Railway siding with horses

Taken: 1911, Source: John Newman, 35 The Avenue, Witham, 
CM8 2DT, Ref: M2786

Railway siding with shunting horses and trucks. Part of the maltings on the right (Harrison Gray) A truck on the extreme right, is on a turntable which pointed trucks at the maltings’ two sidings, one went into each building. Information from John Newman. See also M580 and M581, M2776-M2785, and M2787-M2788.

RefM2786
PublisherGreat Eastern Railway
Date taken1911
SourceJohn Newman, 35 The Avenue, Witham, 
CM8 2DT
RestrictionsFrom the Windwood collection at the National Railway Museum, York. Copyright of the NRM.

Their ref GE 708
Posted on Full size 2560 × 1945

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