GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Shed: gwrls235

A rear three-quarter view of GWR 2-6-2T Prairie No 8100 showing the nearly new condition of the locomotive on 12th February 1939. The introduction of a new class of locomotives was always a special occasion resulting in extra attention. The photographer could not resist in taking several photographs of GWR 2-6-2T Prairie No 8100 and has therefore captured a different image of the locomotive other than the classical three-quarters head shot so often seen

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