Peter Kerslake says "Departing for Plymouth again with a GW liveried strengthener. I like this one, and it shows how the Counties could be satisfactorily rostered to quite demanding duties, despite having only two cylinders
Laira's 1021 County of Montgomery sets off from Newton Abbot, homeward bound , without the assistance of a pilot engine over the South Devon banks with the 5.30.a.m. from Paddington to Plymouth on 2nd. April , 1956.
It has been a long run, as this train ran from Paddington via Bristol Temple Meads and 1021 has worked the train throughout from the Capital, not having been replaced at Bristol.
The West of England allocated Counties often substituted for a Castle , and were also regular favourites for the heavily loaded afternoon milk train to Kensington, working from Plymouth through to London."