City of Truro was the eighth of a batch of ten A49 locomotives built in Swindon in 1903. It is now one of only two surviving Great Western Railway (GWR) double-framed 4-4-0 locomotives. Often referred ...

He was really running GWR from 1900, standardising boilers and ... as the most powerful passenger locomotive. One of them, City of Truro, became the first engine in the world to haul a train ...