GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill - Grouping Period Locomotives: gwrbsh43

GWR 4-4-0 City class No 3717 'City of Truro' is seen standing in Snow Hill station's Platform 3 bay waiting to pilot an express train forward to the north on 30th August 1930. Built at Swindon works as No 3440 in May 1903 No 3717 is said to be the first steam locomotive to exceed 100mph although this claim is not universally acepted. Because of its historic relevance to the GWR No 3717 was preserved when it was withdrawn seven months later in March 1931 from Swindon works and is now part of the national collection at the National Railway Museum in York.

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