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Keywords:BW, Castle, GWR, Steam
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Date modified12-Jun-16 22:16
4073 1956-05-05 Bristol Bedminster Park

4073 1956-05-05 Bristol Bedminster Park

The little girl has abandoned her activities in the park in favour of showing a keen interest in Caerphilly Castle pictured here on the Down Relief at Bedminster, the two lines in the foreground are the down/up avoiding lines. She's well coaled and probably just off Bath Road and now bound for Malago Vale Carriage Sidings. picking up empty stock in readiness for its next duty before running back up into Temple Meads, the lamp is, in this instance, a tail lamp. A long standing Old Oak Common engine, 4073 later spent seven years at Bristol before a transfer to Canton in February of 1957 from where it was withdrawn in May of 1960, then to be restored during a seven month period within Swindon Works and happily secured for preservation. 4073 was a frequent visitor to Plymouth in the 'fifties, and I was able to capture her on film on several workings to and from Bristol during that period in time.