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Swindon Firefly Coffee Pot

Swindon Firefly Coffee Pot

A relic of the early days of the Great Western Railway, and Swindon. This silver model of a GWR Firefly Class locomotive served as a coffee pot in the Swindon Railway Station refreshment rooms in the 1840s when this class where to be seen between London and Bristol. Small burners were placed under the locomotive to keep the coffee warm. I’m not too sure how well it worked as the engineer of the GWR, IK Brunel, wrote to the concessionaireI am surprised that you bought such bad roasted corn. I did not believe that you had such a thing as coffee in the place.

  • Aperture: ƒ/2.8
  • Camera: PENTAX Optio A20
  • Taken: 23 April, 2007
  • Focal length: 7.9mm
  • ISO: 400
UK 2017 0 comments on GWR Royalty

GWR Royalty

The Kings have always been GWR Royalty. 6000 King George V is even more important, the class leader, named after the reigning monarch, representative of the GWR at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads centenary celebration, and breaker of the British Railways steam band 3 years after it was implemented. And here she is in Steam Swindon, her birth place, bearing the Swindon steam shed code, 82C.

GWR King George V