GWR Manor - 7825 Lechlade Manor BR lined black w/early crest7825 Lechlade Manor BR Lined Black (early crest)Named after a Victorian country house in Gloucestershire near the Oxfordshire border, No. 7825 Lechlade Manor carries its delivery scheme, the infamous lined black Riddles revenge scheme. This was an appropriate nickname for a Great Western designed machine wearing a livery inspired by the locomotives of the London & North Western Railway, but the image suited the elegantly proportioned 78XX locomotives

BR green with half yellow ends (mid 1960s)

Wagon C 25167

37414-37421

Switchable Red and white marker lights with correctly configured lights for preservation era oddballs 50008 and 50044

This locomotive was moved directly to the coalfields of South Wales and gained the name “Glendower”

The organisation had also acquired heavily stripped 50001/023/040/045 from Booth’s of Rotherham

philanthropist

HYA 371061

when they were sold on to the Weston

Following a protracted overhaul

around 250 examples remain in service or preservation

Once conversion was completed the newly registered 66793 was transferred to the paint shop at Eastleigh before being unveiled during March 2021 in its British Rail inspired