The driver oils round, will he use the pit to go underneath I wonder. Note the safety valve cover is loose.
Clearly displaying its 81D ( Reading ) shedplate in this view 5018 , " St. Mawes Castle " had been a Gloucester engine in earlier years and would have been used regularly on the tightly timed express workings between Gloucester and Paddington , including the " Cheltenham Spa Express ".
Her glory days are over now and she was condemned from Reading in March of 1964