Vale of Rheidol narrow-gauge 2-6-2T in 'A' Shop. No. 9 was built new at Swindon in 1924.
The original Prince of Wales built by Davies & Metcalfe in 1902 was scrapped by the GWR in 1924 built as Cambrian Railways 1'11½"-gauge 2-6-2T No. 1213 1/1902, one of three for their Aberystwyth - Devil's Bridge line. With all Cambrian stock No. 1213 was taken over by the GWR in 1922

On Nationalisation the second Prince of Wales remained No. 1213 under BR(WR), however it was renumbered No. 9 in 3/49 and named 'Prince Wales' in 6/56. After all standard-gauge steam locomotives had been withdrawn by August 1968, the three Vale of Rheidol narrow-gauge engines remained active on the line until 1989, when a private trust, the Vale of Rheidol Railway took it over and remains active in 2011. Here in 1954 No. 9 (ex-No. 1213) is rather lost in a corner of the great 'A' Shop, otherwise full of Big Engines being built or repaired.