GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Spa - Grouping Locomotives: gwrls886

GWR 4-4-0 Atbara class No 4130 'Omdurman' stands in the down main at Leamington waiting to take the next train forward April 1927. John Copsey speculates that the varied use of 'express headlamps' meant that No 4130 could have been used for a number of purposes including taking a slip coach to Stratford upon Avon, assisting an express up the banks of Hatton or taking over a semi-fast express. Built at Swindon works in July 1900 No 4130 remained in service for another three years after this photograph was taken being retired in April 1930 from Didcot shed for scrapping by Swindon works.

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