Taplow, with Up Hereford express, 1953
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Taplow, with Up Hereford express, 1953
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 25 Jul 1953
View westward, towards Reading etc. on the ex-GWR main line from Paddington. The 11.00 from Hereford is headed by 'Castle' class 4-6-0 No. 5086 'Viscount Horne' (built as a 'Star' class No. 4066 'Malvern Abbey' in 12/22, renamed 5/35 as 'Sir Robert Horne', 'Viscount Horne 8/37, then rebuilt as a 'Castle' 12/37, withdrawn 8/63). (Viscount Horne had been Chairman of the GWR Board (and of various others), a Unionist MP and a leading Minister in Lloyd George's wartime Coalition and later, and a 'womanising bachelor').
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Image Location
Latitude
51.522812
Longitude
-0.678797