GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill - Pre-grouping locomotives: gwrbsh58

GWR 4-4-0 Flower class No 4151 'Calceolaria' is seen standing light engine on the up through road at Snow Hill station in April 1921. The Flower class was the final variant of the series of double-framed locomotives that had evolved from the original Duke class, followed by the Badminton and Atbara classes. Built as GWR No 4103 by Swindon works in May 1908 it was renumbered in 1912 as No 4151 and remained in service until November 1927 when it was withdrawn from Pontypool Road shed to be scrapped at Swindon works.

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