GWR 4073 Class 5029 Nunney Castle

GWR 4073 Class 5029 Nunney Castle is a preserved Great Western Railway Castle Class steam locomotive. It was built at the railway's Swindon Works and outshopped on 28 May 1934, taking its name from Nunney Castle near Frome in Somerset. It was often photographed for publicity and life-on-the-railway pictures, hauled trains carrying evacuated children out of London on the first day of the wartime evacuation of civilians, and pulled the Royal Train from London Paddington to Gloucester in October 1957. Based mostly at Old Oak Common in West London, it moved to Worcester in 1958, then to Newton Abbot, Laira and finally Cardiff East Dock, and was withdrawn in December 1963 with the rest of its class. Sold in 1964 to Woodham Brothers at Barry scrapyard, it was rescued in May 1976 as the last locomotive to leave Barry by rail, returned to the main line in 1990, and after a further overhaul under Jeremy Hosking returned again in April 2008. As of June 2025 it was working mainline charters.