Poor old 5926 " Grotrian Hall " awaits its fate here at Banbury , following withdrawal and having already lost its safety valve cover together with its smokebox handles and all number and nameplates .
In happier times she would have seen service on the Cornish main line , having been allocated to St . Blazey , but like so many others ended her days in the East Midlands , doubtless working freights from there westwards down into South Wales through Oxford and Gloucester .
Banbury Motive Power Depot ,transferred to the London Midland Region from the Western in 1963 , closed in October of 1966