GWR Kings BR & Preservation

Hi All

I have added over 60 photos of GWR Kings to my website starting here with a pre 1935 single chimney photo of 6000 King George V

http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/GWRSteam/GWR-King-Class/16903444_7PZkhw#1277239825_57385hg

6009-6023

http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/GWRSteam/GWR-King-Class/16903444_7PZkhw#1277240211_BWNhDZJ

6024-6027

http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/GWRSteam/GWR-King-Class/16903444_7PZkhw#1277240319_fTcBGt5

Neil

 

Is that last one a mixed freight and passenger service? were those common?

 

I am not sure about this maybe someone can explain this to the forum

http://railway-photography.smugmug....Class/16903444_7PZkhw#1277240319_fTcBGt5-A-LB

Neil

 

Neil,

small thing, but photos 56 and 57 are King Edward I, the caption says II.

Rob

 

Ooops not sure how that happened, thanks anyway, caption changed

Neil

 

I have read somewhere that soft fruit traffic ex the Cheddar Valley Line was attached to passenger trains at Bristol Temple Meads for express movement to Market.
Colin

 

The 2nd & 3rd vehicles look like horse boxes.

 

Picture 36 "6014 at Plymouth", I'm not sure if it is 6014, doesn't appear to have a wedge shaped cab front from it's semi streamlined days which it carried until withdrawal.
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/GWRSteam/GWR-King-Class/16903444_7PZkhw#1546728528_bNhBX3N
I have enlarged the picture x3 but still unable to identify the loco.

 

I am going by the info provided with the photo, so i am open to any ideas on the loco number

Neil

 

The mixed freight/passenger service is running under Class A headlamps so isn't ECS, it probably is either a perishable, such as Cheddar Valley Fruit, or indeed horses. As someone else has noted, some of the wagons are horseboxes. There are an unusually high number - perhaps a race special?