4073 Caerphilly Castle arrives by road at Swindon

[v8pilot]

Finally, it flashed by - and I caught the name "Cearphilly Castle" on its namplate.

Next time I saw the engine was maybe thirty years later - it was standing cold and static in the big loco hall of the Science Museum in South Kensington.

Those were the only two times, so far as I know, that I saw the loco.

[v8pilot]

When I was a little kid, I had a book that had a chapter about this loco and its exchange trials with the LNER. One day I was walking home, over the bridge at Radipole Halt, on the line from Weymouth to Dorchester. I saw a train coming up the gradient from Weymouth,its loco working hard and throwing glowing cinders high into the evening sky. As the locomotve got nearer, I could see it was a Castle class loco, from its curved steam pipes.

[Steam1989]

Its a great oity that 4073 has never run in preservation :-(