Ex-GWR 'Castle' at Old Oak Common, 1948
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Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 18 Jan 1948
Immediately after Nationalisation, so of course still in GWR livery, No. 5008 'Raglan Castle' stands in the yard of the great Old Oak Common Locomotive Depot: it was built 6/27 and withdrawn 9/62.