GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Spa - GWR Locomotives: gwrls892

GWR 2-6-2T 'Large Prairie' No 5103 allocated to Tyseley shed stands at the up platform alongside the Paddington to Shrewsbury parcels train. Number 5103 was built at Swindon works in August 1939 as the fourth in a class of 84 locomotives and remained in service until January 1960 when it was withdrawn from Ebbw Junction shed in Newport to be scrapped by Swindon works in December 1960.

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