Banbury - express passenger
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On a murky day Saturday in May 1961, "King" No 6007 King William III sweeps past Banbury South with what was probably a Paddington-Birkenhead express. My apologies for the motion blur but the picture is useful for showing the main train made up with BR Mk.1 coaches but both strengtheners behind the tender, ex-GWR. Photo: S.V. Blencowe collection.
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I am not sure about this but it looks like Banbury's "Hall" No 6911 Holker Hall is being coupled to the front of another "Hall" to support the train's continuation. Saturday 10th August 1963. Photo: R.K. Blencowe Negative Archive.
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Lacking name and number plates and leaking from its glands, Banbury's "Original Hall" No 6952 Kimberley Hall charges out of the station with a full head of steam past the South signal box with an Up express. 30th March 1965. Photo: Mick Green Collection.
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Near Banbury

Two undated views from the early '60s in the cutting near Southam Road and Harbury station, roughly half-way between Banbury and Warwick. "Original Hall" No 6918 Sandon Hall has an Up excursion made up with ex-GWR carriages and is completing the Fosse Road ascent of 1:187 and about to tackle the last climb through Fenny Compton. The front number plate may be missing but the GWR-style number shows well on the buffer beam. Photo: M.L. Boakes.
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Looking the other way on probably the same day as a Down excursion approaches on the long descent into Warwickshire behind double chimney No 7013 Bristol Castle. Again, all the visible carriages are ex-GWR. Photo: M.L. Boakes.
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Oxford's "Modified Hall" No 7906 Fron Hall has passed through Cropredy station (whose signal box can just be seen in the distance) and is making light of the 1:179 ascent with an excursion on Saturday, 16th May 1964. Big Four coaches were still in use and the 8-coach train is led by 4 ex-LMS Staniers, a BR Mk.1, and three more Big Four carriages, type unknown. Such mixtures lasted until the late 1960s. This location used to be popular for steam specials in the 1970s and '80s but is now, like most of Oxfordshire, a tunnel of trees. Photo: L. Hanson.
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GWR period

Seen on a fine late summer Saturday in 1929 from Banbury North Signal Box with a little motion blue on the front, recently converted from a "Star", "Castle" No 4037 Queen Philippa, still with a small tender, swings past the north yards on the approach to the station with an express, probably from Birmingham or Wolverhampton. 7th September 1929. The loco was renamed The South Wales Borderers in 1937. Photo: CM & JM Bentley, believed to have been taken by W. Leslie Good.