GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Station: gwrt640

Ex-GWR 2-6-2T 'Prairie Tank' No 4133 at the head of a mineral train passes Tyseley station's down relief platform on the goods line to Moor Street. The line in the foreground leads to the carriage sidings and loco shed circa C1963. The 5101 class were developments of the 3150 class of 1903 which in the GWR's 1927 renumbering scheme became the 51xx class. They were really little changed from the first batch but had an increased axle loading of 17 tons 12 hundredweight. Bunkers were of the standard Collett design with greater coal capacity. Additions to the 51xx class were made until available numbers were exhausted, and forty engines were then built in the 41xx series. Courtesy 'Wilipedia website'.

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