Tyseley: Cleaning The Castle...

Hi all. Just a quick one from today. I spent a very pleasant volunteer Saturday with the team over at Tyseley Loco Works in Birmingham. There I spent a few hours up in the cab of the new main line performer: No7029 "Clun Castle". I went to see "Clun" at Stratford the other day on one of her loaded test runs. Since then she's been to Worcester and back on an evening diner and will be repeating that trip this coming Thursday. Therefore, today, I was up in the cab buffing up the fittings. It was unusual in fact to have the engine this way round: they're all usually facing the city centre. Another good day spent with a Great Western thoroughbred. Until next time, Sam...