GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Handsworth & Smethwick: gwrhs1590

GWR Star class 4-6-0 'King Henry' No 4027 is seen on an up Birkenhead express service at Handsworth Junction prior to July 1927. The GWR decision to name their new class of powerful 4-6-0 locomotives after the Kings of England meant that the locomotive needed its name changing to 'The Norwegian Monarch' which was completed in July 1927. The locomotive, which was built in 1909, received a modification to the name in November when the name was shortened to 'Norwegian Monarch' which it carried until it was withdrawn in October 1934.

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