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4073 Caerphilly Castle arrives by road at Swindon

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Uploaded by on Jan 9, 2008

4073 Caerphilly Castle arrives by road at Swindon from Didcot Railway Centre where it had been placed after being pulled from The Science Museum in London.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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