4406 1920s Penzance
GWR 44XX 2-6-2T No 4406 at Penzance Long Rock shed in the late 1920s.
Peter Kerslake says 4406 was allocated there from May 1928 to June 1931 when it moved to St. Blazey. 4406 spent its early years from new in February 1906 in South Wales before moving g to Cornwall in March 1925. It still has its porthole front cab windows.
All eleven '44xx's' were allocated at one time or another at Penzance and all also worked the Princetown line from Yelverton when allocated to Laira. Photo: P.F. Cooke / Rail Archive Stephenson