Relegated to a freight and a far cry from its previous days as a top link " Castle " , and seen here working on the Avon Valley line from Bathampton down through Bradford on Avon to Westbury a rather scruffy looking 4079 , " Pendennis Castle " would have been allocated to Bristol St. Philip Marsh at this time , before being taken out of service and a subsequent transfer to Swindon shed .
If ever an engine deserved to be spared the breaker's torch it must have been " Pendennis Castle " , with a past and well recorded history of high speed runs on the Great Western's " Cheltenham Spa Express " followed by its chequered later history as a result of being sold to Australia 's Hamersley Iron Company and then later return home