Bodmin Parkway
GWR class 42XX 2-8-0T 4247 approaching Bodmin Parkway station with a Bodmin & Wenford Railway service from Boscarne Junction and Bodmin General, on 30th May 2015. This locomotive was designed by G.J. Churchward (1857-1933) CME to the GWR between 1902 and 1922. 105 examples were built between 1903 and 1919 and 4247 dates from 1916 so 99 years old at the date of this photograph. I have not been able to ascertain the date of its withdrawal but it was rescued from Woodham's scrap yard at Barry in April 1995 with initial restoration at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway before being returned to steam at the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in 2005.
Location: Bodmin Parkway
Original line: Cornwall Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Date: 30/05/2015
Image number: 70883
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