The_Mayflower_05_Clun_Castle_close_up A portrait of No.7029 Clun Castle. 
The locomotive was named for an 11th century Norman fortress at Clun 
(actually pronounced clean), on the Welsh border in Shropshire; the 
ruins are today Listed as Grade One, by English Heritage. No.7029 was 
built by British Railways at Swindon, in May 1950, to be fitted with a 
4-row superheater and double-chimney in October 1959. Following 
withdrawal in 1965, No.7029 became the subject of preservation by 
Birmingham Railway Museum, after a May 1964, Plymouth to Bristol run in 
a record time, for a steam locomotive, of 133 minutes for the difficult 
127 mile route. roger.griffiths@hotmail.com