This is a rare photograph of No.7024 'Powis Castle' taken at Worcester Shrub Hill Station on Sunday 10th January 1965. The locomotive has just arrived with the 00:07 Sundays only from Manchester to Plymouth. This train that was steam hauled between Wolverhampton and Bristol was the last scheduled passenger working for a 'Castle' class locomotive. No.7024 was built in 1949 and was based at Oxley (Wolverhampton) from September 1963 until withdrawn in February 1965, shortly after this photograph was taken.
Photograph taken by Robert Pritchard.