An unexpected surprise. 44932 was waiting on the Down Main at Shrewsbury today waiting for the road.

© David Meaden






















 

Lovely stuff- you can't beat a Black Five!

Very nice piece of kit. The Black 5 is a lovely looking engine. Very similar to our NSWGR 36 Class down under.

Cheers, Gary.

Some nice detail there as well David. Great stuff. I have always liked that locomotive but never did get round to buying one as a model.

[user=772]Ben Alder[/user] wrote:

Lovely stuff- you can't beat a Black Five!

Too right, the best, and most useful class of British steam locos ever built :cool:, excellent pics.

Do have to agree, that although its not painted green its still a very very nice looking loco indeed.
Black 5's feature a lot in the set's of DVD's I have on British Railways. 
 

From the 'official' end of steam on the Western Region at the beginning of 1966, till the end of the summer timetable that year (September), inter-regional trains were steam hauled direct from the LMR to the Southern Region, mostly Black 5's from Oxley, Tyseley or Banbury. Bournemouth crews tried their hardest to get their hands on a Black 5 to haul the Waterloo trains instead of their normal motive power, such was their regard for Staniers masterpiece.