King Class 4-6-0 6024 King Edward I blasts up Tackley Bank on 13 November 1999 with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z42 04:42 Crewe to Weymouth 'Wessex Royale' railtour, which the King had worked from Stratford-upon-Avon. The exertion is already beginning to take its toll here, with the first signs of scorching around the bottom of the smokebox door. This had got considerably worse by the time I saw it again at South Moreton. |