GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Spa - GWR Locomotives: gwrls168

GWR 4-6-0 No 4971 'Stanway Hall' stands at Leamington's down platform at the head of an express to Snow Hill. The footbridge is now open being without the side sheeting seen in earlier photographs which would have been a schoolboys dream allowing them to stand above enjoying the locomotive's exhaust circa 1936. Built by Swindon works to Lot 254 in January 1930 No 4971 remained in service for thirty-two years before being withdrawn in August 1962 from Canton shed in Cardiff to be placed in store for over a year prior to being scrapped by R Hayes of Bridgend in January 1964.

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