October 2025 Picture of the Month

On another trip to the Great Western Trust at Didcot this week – for my cast-metal signs project – I was delighted to see one of my favourite locomotives sitting in the autumn sublight outside the sheds. GWR 'King Class' 4-6-0 No.6023, King Edward II, spent decades inthe Woodham Brothers' scrapyard at Barry before being rescued and almost -miraculously brought back from the dead. While this visit was to be largely spent indoors in the Trust's archives, I couldn't resist taking another few pictures of it to add to my library. Despite having been brought up in LMS/BR country, I do think the Great Western 'Kings' are well up the list of the most beautiful steam engines. Canon 5D Mk IV, 24-105mm lens.