A poignant message on the rake of HTAs commemorating the end of an era.
BOTH: KIERAN MARSHALL
LMS‘Jubilee’No. 5593 Kolhapur and GWR 0-6-0PT No. 7760 are to be sold by Tyseley Locomotive Works in order to allow sister company Vintage Trains (VT) to develop its core brand of running Great Westerndesigned locomotives and Pullman restaurant car trains.
The decision to de-accession and sell Kolhapur –which has not steamed since the late 1990s –is because it is considered non-standard where the remainder of the fleet comprises GWR locomotives. A further major factor is that the ‘Jubilee’needs a major overhaul which has been estimated to cost £750,000.