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The Gloucestershire Railway Society was instrumental in getting 'Castle' 4-6-0 5017 'St Donat's Castle' renamed as 'The Gloucestershire Regiment, 28th, 61st'. The loco had been shedded at 85B Gloucester Horton Road since November 1951.
5017 ex-works at Swindon, waiting to return to Horton Road and resume duty in September 1960. It was at Swindon Works from 27 June to 7 September for a heavy general overhaul - its last - which included a change of boiler.
The loco approaches the end of its journey from Gloucester to Paddington on the up 'Cheltenham Spa Express' .
5017 coming out of London on a parcels train returning home after working up on an express passenger.
5017's days were numbered when diesel hydraulics started working between Paddington and Gloucester. This scene at Kemble on 24 February 1962 shows the transition has started with 5017 arriving from London with a down express and D7001 heading to Swindon on a stopping train. Photo Ben Brooksbank.
With Diesel hydraulics fully taking over Cheltenham - Paddington services in September 1962, the loco was withdrawn later in the month and broken up at Cashmores, Newport that December - though at least the nameplates survived.
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