GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Spa - GWR Locomotives: gwrls211

GWR 2-6-2T 'Large Prairie' No 5184 stands at the head of an up local passenger train whilst the driver attends to a little oiling. Although a member of the 51xx class No 5184 was built as a new locomotive at Swindon works in March 1931 and remained in service until October 1964 when it was withdrawn from Horton Road shed in Gloucester and was finally scrapped in April 1965 by the Steel Supply Company of Jersey Marine in Swansea.

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