The majority of the trains working through Trench were of ex LMS origin or BR standards, the only exception being some of Wellingtons Pannier tanks working trip workings. have no photos showing any of the other classes at WEllington working the line but the working instructions for the route allows most of the ex GWR classes including Castles and Halls over the route. Wellington had a small stud of the ex GWR 2-6-2 tanks for working trains to Much WEnlock and Crewe with freight workings to Oxley and I have alwys liked the looks of these locos so one is on the Trench Fleet. I bought the loco at a S4 show in a right state, with a non working chassis and the Airfix body in its original state. I passed the chassis over to my good friend Tony Sheffield whist I attacked the body.
I removed the chimmney and safety valve and replaced them with items from Martin Finney and a vast improvement they made. I then carefilly removed all the moulded in hand rails and fitted "proper" handrails. I then painted the loco and fitted the correct number plates. This particular loco was in unlined green with the large BR emeblem. Then a light weathering and some scale couplings to arrive at the current state.

I will use the loco on one of the trip workings usually performed by the Pannier tanks.