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GWR Route: Stratford on Avon to Honeybourne

Stratford-on-Avon Racecourse Platform: gwr_src1433

Ex-Great Western Railway 5101 class 2-6-2T large prairie No 4109 crossing the lattice girder bridge over the River Avon adjacent to Stratford Racecourse

Ex-Great Western Railway 5101 class 2-6-2T large prairie No 4109 crossing the lattice girder bridge over the River Avon adjacent to Stratford Racecourse with the 1:47 pm. Stratford-on-Avon to Worcester local on 24th March 1960. No 4109 was built at Swindon Works in September 1935, one of twenty engines in Lot 292. These were the sixth batch of the updated version of the successful Churchward 51xx class 2-6-2T large prairie design. The 5101 class can be distinguished from the earlier class by their outside steam pipes, curved front drop ends and an enlarged bunker holding four tons of coal. Although they were three tons heavier than the 51xx class these engines at 78 tons 9 cwt were still classified for Blue Routes. Unlike most of the 5101 class built prior to 1935, this particular locomotive was not allocated to the Birmingham area Suburban Passenger Services, but was instead allocated to Newton Abbot shed (NA) and was still allocated there at nationalisation in 1948. When this photograph was taken in 1960, No 4109 had moved to Worcester shed (85A) and when withdrawn in April 1964 was allocated to Horton Road shed (85B) in Gloucester. No 4109 was scrapped in July 1964 by Birds at Risca.

Robert Ferris

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