King George V three months before undergoing a Light Intermediate Overhaul at Swindon in the June. Now allocated to Old Oak Common it would be condemned from there on 3rd December 1962. The use of "Kings" on the trains between Paddington and Wolverhampton awas still widespread even at this late period in their working lives, with displaced "Kings" from Laira and the West of England services boosting the number allocated to Stafford Road to ten, working those services in conjunction with those at Old Oak.

Note the Stewarts & Lloyds building in the background under construction.