GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill - British Railways Period Locomotives: gwrbsh1291

British Railways built 4-6-0 5MT No 44750, fitted with Caprotti valve gear and Timken roller bearings, is seen passing through Snow Hill on an up Class A express service. Built at Crewe works in February 1948 No 44750 was an Ivatt update to Stanier's ubiquitous design modified to increase both efficiency and maintenance intervals and remained in service until September 1963 when it was withdrawn from Speke Junction shed in Liverpool to be scrapped in June 1964 by the Slag Reduction Company of Orgreave Tip in Rotherham.

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