GWR 4073 Class 7027 Thornbury Castle

Thornbury Castle GWR. Photo taken at Crewe Heritage Centre May 2011

7027 Thornbury Castle was built in August 1949. Its first shed allocation was Plymouth Laira. Its March 1959 shed allocation was Old Oak Common. Its last shed allocation was Reading. It was withdrawn in December 1963 and arrived at Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales in May 1964.

Preservation

7027 was sold to the then Birmingham Railway Museum and left as the 23rd departure from Barry in August 1972. After being purchased by Pete Waterman, she has been stored outside the Crewe Heritage Centre in her Barry Scrapyard condition.

One set of name and number plates for the 7027 are mounted on a wall of the main hall of The Castle School in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire.

External links

http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_cas_castle7.htm

Preserved GWR Castle Class locomotives

4073 Caerphilly Castle 4079 Pendennis Castle 5029 Nunney Castle 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe 5051 Earl Bathurst 5080 Defiant 7027 Thornbury Castle 7029 Clun Castle

List of all GWR Castle Class Locomotives

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