The Seagull Express

Todays photograph, 16 June 2023, features a 500-piece jigsaw from Corner Piece (The Works, Stationers) titled The Seagull Express. The locomotive in the picture is ex GWR 2-8-0T No.4277, built in 1920 at Swindon Works; the photographer is not named.

I'm sure that any viewer can relate to the sunshine radiating from this jigsaw picture as it is similar to that which most of us are experiencing at the present time. Following withdrawal from service in 1964, No.4277 was moved to the famous Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry. Twenty-two years later it departed for the Gloucester Warwickshire Railway, the 173rd engine to leave the scrapyard. In 2008, the locomotive moved on again to the Dartmouth Steam Railway, where it was painted in lined GWR Brunswick Green livery and named Hercules. The latter can be seen on one of the nameplates, located on the smokebox. For a similar jigsaw look up the 18th November 2015 post titled A trio from the Works. The locomotive is different (N0.4588) and an observation coach is positioned immediately behind the engine.