Peter Kerslake says "5903 "Keele Hall" pauses here at Bath Spa station on a "Running In" local stopping service following her overhaul at Swindon Works, resplendent in new colours and soon to be returned to her home shed at Neyland in Wales.
With her ancestry going back to 2925, later 4900, the renowned "Saint Martin", rebuilt as the first "Hall" by Mr. Churchward at Swindon in 1924, "Keele Hall" was built in May of 1931 and is seen here coupled to a 4000 gallon tender which enhances her appearance even more, her driver and fireman both determined to be recorded on film.
By the end of the Great Western Railway in 1947 this class of highly successful mixed traffic locomotives could be found allocated to no fewer than twenty nine Motive Power Depots with Old Oak Common housing thirty four but with Wolverhampton leading the field with thirty five the remainder being allocated as far afield as Penzance in the far west to Chester in the north and Fishguard in West Wales"