Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Flying Dutchman on the Great Western railway

The legend of the Flying Dutchman concerns a ghost ship that can never make port, doomed to sail the oceans forever, and the best known treatment of it is Richard Wagner's opera from 1843, Der fliegende Holländer  
Regardless, this postcard, a Raphael Tuck Oilette (a trade name used by Raphael Tuck to describe postcards reproduced from original paintings), shows GWR locomotive 4-4-0 City class no 3433 City Of Bath; this entered service in March 1903, was converted to superheating in September 1911, renumbered 3710 and withdrawn from service in September 1928.

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