King Edward Ii Steam Train Tapestries

Great Western Railway (GWR) locomotive King Edward the Second in a design incorporating the nameplate.

A black and white image of King Edward II, an ex Great Western Railway (GWR) King Class locomotive number 6023 photographed on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway near Goathland station. King Edward II had been a guest locomotive for the Autumn Gala and looks resplendent here catching the evening sunlight.

A black and white image of King Edward II, an ex Great Western Railway (GWR) King Class locomotive number 6023 photographed on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway near Winchcombe with the Malvern Hills in the background.

A black and white image of 6023 King Edward the Second, photographed on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway near Goathland station on a damp day. King Edward II had been a guest locomotive for the Autumn Gala. The King is an ex Great Western Railway (GWR) King Class locomotive.

A black and white photograph of GWR (Great Western Railway) King Class locomotive, King Edward the Second number 6023 double heading with Hall class locomotive, Foremarke Hall as they round Chicken Curve near Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. Both engines are working hard on the wet track, on this atmospheric rainy day.

King Edward II, Didcot, August 2021 Resplendent in its blue British Railways livery, King class locomotive number 6023, King Edward II was built in Swindon in 1930, and spent most of its working life hauling passenger trains between London Paddington and Devon. The 'Kings' were the most powerful locomotives to work the Great Western Railway routes. Sold for scrap in 1962, KIng Edward II then spent over 20 years in a South Wales scrapyard, before eventually ending up at Didcot Railway Centre, in Oxfordshire, where it was rebuilt in a major engineering project taking a further 20 years. The locomotive was regularly run at Didcot between 2011 and 2020, also visiting other heritage railways in the Midlands, Yorkshire, and Devon. The locomoti...

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