BR Standard Class 7 No. 70000 'Britannia' Steam Locomotive

Steam locomotive 'Britannia' No. 70000 arriving at Shrewsbury station, Shropshire on 26th January 2023 on a test run.

 

Britannia was built at Crewe, completed on 2 January 1951. It was the first British Railways standard locomotive to be built and the first of 55 locomotives of the Britannia class. The locomotive was named at a ceremony at Marylebone Station by the then Minister for Transport Alfred Barnes on 30 January 1951.

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