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[[File:7903 Foremarke Hall on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway (2).jpg|thumb|7903 ''Formarke Hall'' on the GloucsWarks Railway.]]

[[File:Foremarke Hall Leaving Toddington (8816719855).jpg|thumb|Leaving Toddington.]]

[[Great Western Railway]] [[GWR 6959 Class|Modified Hall Class]], '''7903 ''Foremarke Hall''''' is a preserved British steam locomotive, built in 1949 at [[Swindon Works]]. The loco's first shed allocation Old Oak Common, and it was named after [[Foremarke Hall|the Derbyshire stately home]]. In both August 1950 and March 1959, the loco's shed allocations was still Old Oak Common, but by the time of the loco's withdrawal in 1964, her allocation was at Cardiff East Dock.

It was withdrawn from service with [[British Railways]] in 1964 and sold for scrap to [[Woodhams' Scrapyard]] in [[Barry, Wales|Barry]]. Seventeen years later, in 1981, the loco was saved for preservation, and moved to the [[Swindon and Cricklade Railway]] where restoration work began.

The loco's restoration was completed 22 years later in September 2003. The locomotive was briefly used on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway during the tail end of 2003 and early months of 2004 before moving to the nearby [[Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway]] by May 2004, where it is now based, although the engine did also visit the [[Llangollen Railway]] in June 2005, the [[Severn Valley Railway]] in September 2005, and Old Oak Common Depot in September 2017, as well as undergoing a full 10-year overhaul at Tyseley Locomotive Works between the end of 2013 and early May 2016. The loco also featured in two episodes of the BBC Crime Drama [[Father Brown (2013 TV series)|Father Brown]] that were filmed on the GWSR during the summers of 2012 and 2016, with the episodes being aired during the early months of 2013 and 2017.

==External links==
*[http://www.7903foremarkehall.co.uk 7903 Foremarke Hall]
*[http://www.gwsr.com/html/foremarke_hall.html Information on Foremarke Hall on GWR website.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513042217/http://www.gwsr.com/html/foremarke_hall.html |date=13 May 2006 }}

[[Category:GWR 6959 Class|7903]]
[[Category:Preserved Great Western Railway steam locomotives|7903]]
[[Category:Standard-gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain]]
[[Category:individual locomotives of Great Britain]]
[[Category:Locomotives saved from Woodham Brothers scrapyard]]
[[Category:Railway locomotives introduced in 1949]]
[[Category:4-6-0 locomotives]]


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