GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill - British Railways Period Locomotives: gwrbsh1306

Ex-LMS 4-6-2 Princess Coronation class No 46237 'City of Bristol' is seen standing at Platform 7 on the 2 35pm Wolverhampton to Paddington service during April 1955. The ex-LMS Pacific locomotive had been loaned to the Western Region for trials but other than confirming the class could operate on the same routes as the King class no long lasting decision was made. However the following year saw the King class suffer the indignity of being temporarily withdrawn en-masse due faults with their axles which saw a variety of locomotives being drafted in from the other regions including Stanier's Pacifics. Originally built in streamlined form at Crewe works in August 1939 No 6237 was to remain in service until September 1964 when it was withdrawn from Upperby shed in Carlisle to be scrapped during January 1965 by Arnott & Young West of Scotland Shipbreaking Company of Troon.

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