When and where to see 78-year-old steam loco chuff through Shropshire on Tuesday

A 78-year-old steam engine will be heading through Shropshire on Tuesday, bringing day-trippers to the county town via a very circular route.

The train, entitled the Welsh Marches Express, will start its journey behind a diesel locomotive at Coventry, then head down to Bristol via Leamington Spa, Oxford and Bath.

Built in 1946 to pull trains for the Southern Railway between London and destinations such as Exeter, Plymouth and Bournemouth, it worked for 19 years before being sent to scrap. After languishing at a South Wales scrapyard for 22 years, it was bought in 1988 and returned to working order in 2007.

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