Station Name: HYTHE (Kent)[Source:
Nick Catford and Brian Hart]
old13.jpg) SR Class C 0-6-0 31721 waits at Hythe station on Saturday 1 December 1951, the last day of public service. This loco was designed by Harry Wainwright for the SECR and built by Sharp Stewart. It entered service in January 1901 as 1721 and received the ‘3’ prefix at nationalisation. It carried this number until withdrawal after over 61 years service during March 1962, being scrapped in April of the same year at Ashford works. There is one example preserved at the Bluebell Railway as SECR No.592. This appeared in the Carlton TV version of The Railway Children as the 'Green Dragon'.Photo by SC Nash
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