Steam Railmotor No.93 at the Llangollen Railway in March 2011

Railmotor No. 93 was originally built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Swindon Works in 1908. It was condemned as a Steam railmotor on 19th November 1934 and was converted into Auto Trailer No. 212 in which guise it appeared in May 1935.
The Auto Trailer was itself condemned by British Railways in May 1956. However, the vehicle was not scrapped but converted into a 'Work Study Coach' with a British Railways internal user number of 079014, this ended up in use as an office in Birmingham.
In 1970, it was sold to the Great Western Society and moved to their base at Didcot Railway Centre but it was not until 1998 that they were able to make a start on returning it to original condition as a steam railmotor. The frame of the new power bogie was erected in November 2000 at the Tyseley Locomotive Works and was then mounted on wheels and fitted with a boiler. In January 2009 the new power bogie was moved to the Llangollen Railway where it was united with the restored carriage portion. The work was completed in March 2011 just a couple of weeks before a photo charter organised by Richard Newton of the ‘3P20 Parcels’ group took place. No. 93 returned to public service at Didcot in May later that year.
The boiler certificate of No.93 expired in spring 2021 and the vehicle currently awaits a boiler overhaul and some considerable remedial work to the exterior wood cladding.
(Source: Wikipedia and Didcot Railway Centre)
Many thanks to Richard Newton and the staff at the Llangollen Railway for organising this photocharter.