The latest railtour to bring day-trippers to Shrewsbury chuffs its way through Shropshire this week.
Hundreds of people will be enjoying the latest Welsh Marches Express, which will be steam-hauled from Bristol to Shrewsbury and return.
A member of the B1 class, designed to haul freight and passenger trains, it was one of 410 built between 1942 and 1952, emerging from the North British Locomotive Company workshop in Glasgow in April 1948. Since 2022 it has been owned by Locomotive Services Group and runs in the livery it carried when first built.
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