7031 1962-02-04 Swindon Works
Looking her best following overhaul and receipt of new colours here at Swindon , 7031 " Cromwell's Castle " will now be going over to her home shed just across the tracks as she had been allocated to Swindon Depot from September of 1959 following many years at Plymouth's Laira Depot .One of Laira's finest in the ' fifties 7031 was regularly rostered to the Paddington Top Link duties , including Ocean Express Boat Trains from Plymouth's Millbay Docks to the Capital , as well as working down to Penzance on such duties as the " Cornish Riviera " .From March of 1962 she joined many other " Castles " spending their last few months in service at Worcester Motive Power Depot , from where she was condemned in July of 1963.