Mr Monkey clambered over some carelessly abandoned luggage to peer into a ticket office, then trotted along the platform to inspect a freight train. The locomotive is a Great Western 28XX 2-8-0, No. 2818, with eight smallish driving wheels to haul heavy loads at slow speeds. The GWR built 167 of these locomotives.
You can read about the 2800 class at the Great Western Archive website.
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