7820 1958-04-07 Ivybridge
GWR Manor 4-6-0 No 7820 Dinmore Manor and King No 6013 King Henry VIII with the 1.10pm Penzance-Paddington at Ivybridge on 7 April 1958.
Peter Kerslake says "I think this would have been the 4:10 p.m. from Plymouth North Road not usually double headed but this day with Laira's 7820 "Dinmore Manor" helping Old Oak's 6013 "King Henry VIII" just as far as Newton Abbot, the pair now both working hard and about to tackle the rising grade from here at Ivybridge up to Wrangaton before the long drop down through South Brent and Rattery into Totnes.
7820 later worked the very last down "Cambrian Coast Express" from Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth on the 13th. November 1965 before returning home to Shrewsbury later that evening with the York postal working".
Photo: P.W.Gray / Rail Archive Stephenson