1936 built (the chassis and boiler of two significantly earlier designs spliced together) 'Dukedog' No.9017 'Earl of Berkeley' (it was allocated, but never carried this name in it's true working days) runs past with the shuttle at the Tyseley open day to celebrate the finishing of the restoration of Castle Class No.5043 'Earl of Mount Edgcumbe'. It had visited the Severn Valley Railway for their famed september gala and stopped off at Tyseley on it's way back to it's home base, the Bluebell Railway in Sussex. On one side just for the day it carried the name of another unpreserved dukedog, No.3200 'Earl of Mount Edgcumbe'- which did carry the name for a time. The story goes that the Earls involved in the GWR requested some locomotives named after them and Collett, the Chief Mechanical Engineer allocated the names to these antiquated machines- which did not please the Earls! The names were therefore moved to some Castles - including, of course, No.5043

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