7810 1959-07-29 Talerdigg
Manor 4-6-0 No 7810 Draycott Manor arrives at Talerdigg with the 2.30pm Aberystwyth to Oswestry train on July 29, 1959.
Peter Kerslake says "7810 moved to the Cambrian from Gloucester Horton Road, supplementing the "Manors" already working there. It has topped the fourteen miles of the climb from Machynlleth, at its steepest a gradient of one in fifty two.
Built from 1938 and using wheels and motion from withdrawn "43XX" class "Moguls" the class initially saw service in the Gloucester, Cheltenham and Swindon areas before being the mainstay of passenger working on the Cambrian.
Withdrawn in December 1964 Draycott Manor was not one of the nine of the class which made it into preservation."
Photo: B.O. Tuck/Rail Archive Stephenson