GWR 4551

Early Services
A GWR 4501 class used for various duties including shunting, cargro and passenger trains until the withdrawl of No.4551 in 1963.

Private Ownership
GWR No.4551 was purchased at a low cost to the new owners and was shipped to continental Europe. Only used twice a year for smuggling various shipments of drugs, weapons and any other valuable items worth smuggling. The group's smuggling operations began to be ceased by European governments in 2008. As a desperate act to keep as many of their assets, they were shipped off