'Black Prince's Thunderous Ascent' - Didbrook, Gloucestershire - 4.6.2022
Pictured here at 9.20am on Saturday 4th June 2022, day two of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's (GWR) 2022 Cotswold Festival of Steam: 'Somerset and Dorset Remembered', sees BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 No. 92203 Black Prince 'Thunder' past the fields at Didbrook Gloucestershire en route to Winchcombe.
Ten minutes earlier it had departed from Toddington with the day's first passenger service for Cheltenham Racecourse.
Because of COVID 19 this 'Commemorative Event' was postponed from 2020.
92203 was designed by Robert Riddles and built at Swindon Works in 1959. It only lasted 8 years in service, because of ongoing dieselisation and electrification to the UK's mainline network, before its withdrawal in November 1967; when it was purchased straight from BR by the artist David Shepherd who named her 'Black Prince' - a name never carried in BR service.
It was then moved to the Longmoor Military Railway until its closure, whereupon between 1973 and 1998 it was based on the East Somerset Railway - thereafter spending many years at the GWR before moving to the North Norfolk Railway (NNR) in 2011. In 2015, David Shepherd sold it to the NNR after nearly 50 years of private ownership.
This 'Iconic' locomotive was one of the five guest engines appearing at last week's GWR's Steam Festival held between Friday 3rd and Sunday 5th June 2022.
Quite a spectacle and very much appreciated by the many nearby photographers too!
'Black Prince's Thunderous Ascent' - Didbrook, Gloucestershire - 4.6.2022
Pictured here at 9.20am on Saturday 4th June 2022, day two of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's (GWR) 2022 Cotswold Festival of Steam: 'Somerset and Dorset Remembered', sees BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 No. 92203 Black Prince 'Thunder' past the fields at Didbrook Gloucestershire en route to Winchcombe.
Ten minutes earlier it had departed from Toddington with the day's first passenger service for Cheltenham Racecourse.
Because of COVID 19 this 'Commemorative Event' was postponed from 2020.
92203 was designed by Robert Riddles and built at Swindon Works in 1959. It only lasted 8 years in service, because of ongoing dieselisation and electrification to the UK's mainline network, before its withdrawal in November 1967; when it was purchased straight from BR by the artist David Shepherd who named her 'Black Prince' - a name never carried in BR service.
It was then moved to the Longmoor Military Railway until its closure, whereupon between 1973 and 1998 it was based on the East Somerset Railway - thereafter spending many years at the GWR before moving to the North Norfolk Railway (NNR) in 2011. In 2015, David Shepherd sold it to the NNR after nearly 50 years of private ownership.
This 'Iconic' locomotive was one of the five guest engines appearing at last week's GWR's Steam Festival held between Friday 3rd and Sunday 5th June 2022.
Quite a spectacle and very much appreciated by the many nearby photographers too!