Iconic Gallery

No 92220 Evening Star

2-10-0 9F class locomotive, built 1960. Evening Star was the last mainline British Railways steam locomotive to be built in Britain at Swindon Works.
Withdrawn 1965

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2 10 0, 92220, British Railways, Evening, Evening Star, Locomotive, Swindon

Railway Queen Mabel Kitson on King George V at Swindon, 1928

Railway Queen Mabel Kitson, photographed on the running board of GWR locomotive King George V, at Swindon Works in 1928. Mabel became Railway Queen in 1927, aged 15. She was an ambassador for British railway companies. He father was a GWR signalman

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1920s, 1928, King Class, King George V, Locomotive, Mabel Kitson, Railway Queen, Swindon Works

King George V in America in 1927

King George V with the crew that travelled with the locomotive to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Centenary celebrations in America in 1927. From left to right: George Dando, Fred Williams, William Stanier, Lillian Schueler (dressed as Britannia), William Young and George Pearce

Baltimore And Ohio Railway, King George V