GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Spa Station: gwrls250

GWR 4-4-0 No 3830 'Armorel' stands at the up platform on a local passenger train to Banbury. Barry Freeman GRA, wrote to correct the original caption and stated, 'The first three numbers on the bufferbeam are clearly 330. This I believe identifies the engine as No 3306 'Armorel', which was the only one of the first ten to be rebuilt from a 'Duke' with a parallel boiler. The photograph was taken between February 1902 and April 1906, when this locomotive was reboilered with a half coned boiler.'

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