Tag: Steam
British Railways – Cycling Lion
The forerunner to the ‘Ferret ánd Dartboard’ the Cycling Lion, which featured on locomotives and rolling stock from Nationalisation in 1948 until 1956.
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.