No 6023 king edward ii biography

Gwr 3822

The locomotive was built at the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works, out-shopped in June For most of its working life it was allocated to Newton Abbot and Laira depots, working express passenger trains to and from Devon to London Paddington.


no 6023 king edward ii biography

41xx class

On 12 April , King Edward II’s boiler passed its steam test, and on 20 January it moved for the first time under its own power since Initially, King Edward II has been Missing: biography.

Gwr king edward i

‘King Edward II’ emerged from Swindon Works in June and spent all its life until the last year or so allocated to Newton Abbot and Laira (Plymouth).


Didcot railway centre locomotives
The steam locomotives King Edward II () and its twin King Edward I () were the final development of Churchward’s Star class and Collett’s Castles, the Kings were .