Steam engine leaves Birmingham Moor Street.

[Broithe]

..after ten years - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-22766494 ...

 

[heirflick]

i will look forward to the day that she is restored to steam!i always had a graw for GW engines:x

[Mike 84C]

heirflick you have excellent taste in steam locos! May the return to steam be soon. When I was but a lad I used to fire those engines and they were as good as they look, very strong and capable. One night we were ambling along towards Oxford with a freight and my driver climed out of his side of the cab walked around the footplate framing and stuck his face around my side of the cab.Brown trousers or what!! But did he get a lot of p--- take mileage out of that one=D

[Warbonnet]

GWR steamers were the sluts of the rails with all that copper and bling going on!

 

The midland was where it was at!