Stanier 8F 48431

Our Stanier 8F belongs to the K&WVR

48431 was built at Swindon in 1944 as 8431. It was one of the locomotives ordered by the Railway Executive Committee who were reformed (after being used during the First World War) in 1938 and later took on full control of the railways until nationalisation in 1948. It worked on the GWR at Gloucester until 1947 when it was transferred to the LMS at the Royston shed in Yorkshire.