VINTAGE Trains GWR ‘Castle’ No. 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe is poised to return to the main line in March, having completed a 10-yearly boiler overhaul.
Once the loco has undertaken depot trials, followed by light and loaded test runs that were planned for late February, it is due to be back on the main line on March 4 ,when it will double-head a special train for community benefit shareholders from Birmingham Moor Street to Didcot with WR 4-6-0 No. 7029 Clun Castle.
At Didcot, Tyseley’s two ‘Castle’ class locos will participate in a public line-up in front of the loco shed with Didcot’s two ‘Castles’, No. 4079 and No. 5051 , before the Tyseley pair return to Birmingham.
