70000 Britannia in Shropshire - a photo on Flickriver

            Locomotive 70000 Britannia running through Shropshire on a training journey from Crewe to Shrewsbury and back.
Britannia was built at Crewe, completed on 2 January 1951. It was the first British Railways standard locomotive to be built and the first of 55 locomotives of the Britannia class. The locomotive was named at a ceremony at Marylebone Station by the then Minister for Transport Alfred Barnes on 30 January 1951.
The locomotive pulled the funeral train of King George VI[5] from King's Lynn, Norfolk to London following his death in February 1952
   

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Taken on: January 26, 2023

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