BR standard class 9f Steam Locomotive seen on the West Somerset Railway
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Tony Eves / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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4287 x 2848 px | 36.3 x 24.1 cm | 14.3 x 9.5 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
7 October 2012Location:
West somerset Railway England UKMore information:
92203 was the third 9F built by Swindon in January 1959. When withdrawn after a working life of less than nine years, it was working the heavy iron ore trains out of Birkenhead Bidston Dock to Shotwick Shotton steelworks, and worked the last steam-hauled ore train in November 1967. The locomotive was purchased straight from BR by the artist David Shepherd and moved to the Longmoor Military Railway. He named her Black Prince, a name never carried by 92203 in British Railways service. On closure of the LMR, 92203 moved to Eastleigh Depot and then, in 1973, to the East Somerset Railway, where it was based until 1998. During this period 92203 visited several other heritage railways and in September 1982 hauled the heaviest freight train in Britain, 2198 tonnes, at Foster Yeoman's Tor Works. After being overhauled at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway in 2004, she worked there until 2011, when in the need to build up an overhaul fund, she moved to the North Norfolk Railway.