Railway Herald
When GWR 4500 class number 4571 left Bromyard on with a special train on 26th April 1958, few thought steam would ever return to the town. However a series of events led to steam returning briefly to the station area between the 9th and 11th of March. The Vale of Rheidol tourist railway in Wales had agreed to loan Kerr Stuart Wren Class locomotive No. 3114 built in 1918 to the London Museum of Water and Steam. Taking advantage of the journey from Aberystwyth the locomotive paid a brief visit to the private Linton and Bromyard Railway which runs on the old standard gauge railway between Bromyard and Worcester. The visit included 2 days of special photographic charters on the narrow gauge railway bringing the sound and smell of a steam locomotive back to the former railway for the first time in many years.
Stuart Chapman
