Here at Kidderminster town on the Severn Valley
Railway earlier last year
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4500 Class or
Small Prairie is a class of 2-6-2T steam locomotives.
They were designed as small mixed traffic branch
locomotives, mainly used on branch lines. The design
was based on the earlier 4400 Class, but with larger
driving wheels and altered wheel spacing. This gave
them extra speed - capable of 60 mph in service.
Three of the class still exist, two of them survivors from
Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan,
South Wales. All of them have run in preservation.
Locomotive left Woodham Brothers in August 1970
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