I do like Black Fives. They are such stalwarts. We turned a
blind eye to them in times past, relatively speaking, as they were two a penny on
the national network in BR days, and because they were overshadowed by the more
colourful and powerful express locomotives that we had really gone to see.
No. 45407 has become something of an old friend since then,
cropping up all over the place, including here at the East Lancashire Railway
in 2001 and at Exeter St David’s in the following year.
On both occasions, she was in the guise of class mate No.
45157 The Glasgow Highlander, one of only four named Stanier Class Fives out of
a total of 842. She was also one that I never caught up with before she was scrapped.
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