7000 1956-05-19 Newton Abbot
Newton Abbot shed's 7000, "Viscount Portal" races non stop through its home town and past Newton Abbot West Box with the Paddington bound " Torbay Express " on 19th. May , 1956. This working was one diagrammed for one of Newton Abbot's allocation of " Castles " at this time , and 7000 will earlier have worked down to Kingswear , the terminus of the Torbay line , most probably on a local stopper , before being turned there in readiness for its main duty of the day , the up " Torbay Express " .