GWR 7800 Class 7812 Erlestoke Manor

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7812 Erlestoke Manor on the Down Cambrian Coast Express to Aberystwyth at Machynlleth on 6 August 1965.

GWR 7800 Class 7812 Erlestoke Manor is a steam locomotive that serviced the Great Western Railway. It was built at Swindon in January 1939. First shed allocation Bristol, Bath Road. August 1950 shed allocation Newton Abbot. March 1959 shed allocation Plymouth Laira. Transferred to Oswestry May 1960 and finally to her last shed allocation, Shrewsbury, in February 1963. Withdrawn from British Railways service in November 1965, it was sent to a scrapyard in Barry to be turned into scrap metal, along with fellow manor class, Bradley Manor.

[edit] Preservation

Erlestoke Manor along with nine of its fellow manor class were saved from scrap and are preserved to this day. Erlestoke Manor is currently undergoing a major overhaul on the Severn Valley Railway but its tender is currently attached to fellow manor Bradley Manor.

[edit] External links

• The Erlestoke Manor Fund More information on the loco and its history.