GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Spa - BR Locomotives: gwrls2107

An unidentified ex-GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 locomotive enters the road to the up platform on 3rd September 1955. The train reporting number seen on the smokebox door '923' indicates its the 7:35 am Birkenhead to Ramsgate service , with the front half going to Ramsgate via Deal and the rear half to Margate via Canterbury West, running via Reading (New Junction) onto the Southern Region, and scheduled for that region's rolling stock. The train was scheduled to stand at Leamington from 11:17 am to 11:21 am. On the left is an unidentified ex-GWR 60xx Class 4-6-0 'King' locomotive standing at the head of a down express to Birkenhead. The King Class locomotive is probably at the head of the 9:10 am Paddington to Birkenhead, itself due to stand at Leamington from 11:07 am to 11:12 am. a service rostered to be hauled by a King Class locomotive.

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