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Round Oak Ironworks, Brierley Hill: circa1868. A branch of the Great Western Railway (the former Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway - 'the Old Worseand Worse') enters the large warehouse for the storage of finished iron, but most of the visible railway is the the Earlof Dudley's Pensnett Railway. To the right is one of thelocomotives in use - probably the Wellington, built by ManningWardle in 1865. (Dudley: illustrated by photographs, author anonymous, published by W.H.Laxton, 1868.)