Steam fans were thrilled today by the sight of a vintage steam train be passing through Herefordshire.
The Welsh Marches Express was pulled by the 7029 Clun Castle locomotive.
It started its journey at Tyseley Locomotive Works, near Birmingham.
It then stopped at Birmingham New Street to pick up passengers, passing Wolverhampton and on to Shrewsbury, where it joined the Marches line.
The Clun Castle was built in Swindon in May 1950 by Great Western Railway and was named after the fortress in the south Shropshire border town.
Clun Castle was the last steam engine to haul a train from the original Birmingham Moor Street station before it closed, making way for the ‘new’ Moor Street station situated on the through lines to Snow Hill.
As it made its way through Shropshire, it passed through Craven Arms, Ludlow and Wooferton.
It then steamed through Leominster and Moreton-on-Lugg en route to Hereford, where arrived shortly after 11am.
The train stopped in Hereford until 1.30pm to give its passengers some sightseeing time in the city, before powering on to Bristol, via Newport and the Severn Tunnel.
Its return journey was via the Great Western main line to Oxford before Birmingham via Hatton Bank.
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