Description

BR Standard Class 5 No. 73049 (built 1953, with 82F Bath Green Park shedplate) and Fowler S&D 7F No. 53809 (built 1925 as S&D No. 89) approaching Midsomer Norton South with the eight carriage 9.08 am Birmingham New Street – Bournemouth service. 1O90 reporting code disc is being displayed. Five Arches just out of sight. Great Western Frome-Bristol line in background. Radstock Up Distant signal just visible behind the train. 18 August 1962.

73049 is shown as allocated to Bath Green Park from 1955-1960 and from June/July 1962 until August-October 1964. 53809 is shown as already allocated to Bath Green Park at the time of nationalisation in 1948 and remaining there until withdrawal in May/June 1964. 53809 was subsequently preserved.

Photo by Frank Michael Allen. Copyright S&DRT. Our ref. WSHSD_2024_139_002.

35mm Agfacolor slide. This image appears in the book Somerset & Dorset Sunset by Michael Welch.

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