THIS beauty was spotted on the Settle to Carlisle line on Saturday, the first time it has been on the line since 1967.

The video was captured by Thomas Beresford as AGWR 4073 Class No. 7029 Clun Castle emerged from the tunnel at Dent Head.

She is a 4-6-0 steam locomotive built at Swindon Works in May 1950 to a design by Charles Collett for operation on the Western Region of British Railways. It was named after Clun Castle in Shropshire.

According to Wikipedia she was sold for scrap at £2,400 to Patrick Whitehouse in 1966. Ownership then passed to 7029 Clun Castle Ltd. In preservation it has been based at Tyseley TMD, now Tyseley Locomotive Works.

In 1967, carrying a Great Western livery, the loco hauled trains to mark closure of the GWR route to Birkenhead, from King's Cross to Newcastle and over the Settle-Carlisle Line.

In 1972, it joined in the "Return to Steam" tours. After a major overhaul, it emerged in British Railways livery in 1985. In 1986, it hauled the last train from the old Birmingham Moor Street station. In the mid 1980s, some of the restoration work was undertaken by a government funded Community Programme scheme, managed by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council.