4065 1938 Taplow
GWR Star 4-6-0 No 4065 Evesham Abbey with up ECS passing Taplow in c1938. before it was rebuilt as a Castle, renumbered as 5085, in 1939.
Peter Kerslake says "The lamps show this to be an empty stock working for 4065 "Evesham Abbey", allocated from newly built in December 1922 to Exeter depot and rebuilt as a "Castle" in 1937, renumbered 5085 and in its rebuilt form initially housed at Old Oak Common but finally being withdrawn in February of 1964 from Bristol St. Philips Marsh".
Photo: C.R.L. Coles / Rail Archive Stephenson