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Wednesday 22 October 2014

Nunney Castle at Pickering Autumn Steam Festival

Owned by Jeremy Hosking, Nunney Castle prepares
to depart Pickering with a train for Whitby
 
 
Very much admired by the LMS after a trial on the
east coat main line with Launceston Castle and were
so successful that the LMS asked the GWR to build
some of the class for them or at least loan them the
drawings. The request was turned down by the GWR
board and so the LMS had to go another way in
procuring William Stanier from the GWR

 
Stanier brought with him many other attributes of
the GWR when he moved to Crewe

 
So successful was the Castles' design that
construction continued at intervals until
 1950, by which time 171 had been built.

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