GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Shed: gwrt328

GWR 2-4-0 Barnum class No 3210, a curved outside-framed locomotive, stands outside Tyseley's Repair shops on 19th March 1933. William Dean's design for this locomotive type was still embedded in the mid-Victorian school and it seems strange to think that in just over a decade Churchward would be producing his classic 4-6-0 designs that laid the foundation for steam locomotive design to the end of steam on British Railways. Built at Swindon works in May 1889 No 3210 remained in service until March 1937 when it was withdrawn from Wellington shed in Salop to be scrapped by Swindon works.

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