The Tom Derrington Railway Archive

5051 & 4930 Newton Abbot 7 July 1985

GWR Castle 4-6-0 5051 Drysyllwyn Castle & Hall 4-6-0 4930 Hagley Hall pull out of Newton Abbot station on 7 July 1985 with the BR/SLOA 1Z47 09:02 Paddington to Plymouth 'Great Western Limited' railtour. Unfortunately, despite the two locos, the train stalled on Dainton Bank, and required the assistance of 50045 Achilles to push it up the bank. The train was then terminated at Totnes. Note the 17:10 Exeter St Davids to Paignton DMU doing its best to mess up the picture behind the steam locos. I bet the DMU driver secretly enjoyed his bit of parallel running!

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