updated 25/04/10

5043 - Return To Steam

5043 at Wilmcote
Wilmcote: Marylebone - Stratford Private Charter 01/08/09 : Phil Neale

GWR 4-6-0 Castle
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

Built : Swindon March 1936

Original Name : Barbury Castle

Renamed : 1937

Double-Chimney fitted : May 1958

Withdrawn : December 1963

Restored & Mainline Certified : October 2008

The Bristolian : Triumphantly re-enacts Britain's fastest express train of the 1950's 17 April 2010

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5043 at Whittington near Chesterfield
Whittington : 12 Dec 2009
The White Rose
Peter Salmon
5043 at Burton Salmon
Burton Salmon : 12 Dec 2009
The White Rose
Stuart Brown
5043 Croome Woods, Defford
Defford : 9 Jan 2010
Private Charter
Phil Waterfield

 

5043 Great Strickland
Great Strickland 20/06/09
Castle Over Shap

Neville Wellings
5043 at Widney Manor
Widney Manor 05/07/09
Shakespeare Express
Denis Chick
5043 at Scout Green
Scout Green 20/06/09
Castle Over Shap
Mark Kirby

 

5043 at Chester
Chester 06/06/09
The Welsh Highlander
Neville Wellings
5043 Chesterfield
Chesterfield 25/04/09
The City of York
Andrew Bell
5043 and 5029 at Defford
Defford 16/05/09
The Welsh Marches with 5029 Nunney Castle
Andrew Bell

 

5043 Banbury
Banbury 28/03/09
The Bristolian
Brian Dangerfield
5043 on 13 Dec 2008 at Kensington Olympia
Kensington Olympia 13/12/08
London Christmas Shopper
Richard Moreton
5043 at Tyseley
Tyseley 07/12/08
Melton Mowbray Christmas Fayre
Andrew Bell

 

5043 on 7th December 2008 at Frisby upon Wreake
Frisby upon Wreake 07/12/08
Melton Mowbray Christmas Fayre
Andrew Bell
4965 & 5043 at Leamington
Leamington 08/11/08
Solihull to Didcot with 4965 Rood Ashton Hall
Andrew Bell
5043 on Langley Bank on 19th October 2008
Langley Bank 19/10/08
Shakespeare Express - loaded trial
Clive Hanley

 

5043 on Wilmcote Bank on 19th October 2008
Wilmcote Bank 19/10/08
Shakespeare Express - a loaded trial
Andrew Bell

5043 at Shirley on trial run 16/10/08
Shirley 16/10/08
Return to the main line - light engine trial
Matt Wilson

5043 at Stratford after a trial run from Tyseley 16th October 2008
Stratford-upon-Avon 16/10/08
Light engine trial
Clive Hanley

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