LMS Route: Birmingham - Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham

Hansdworth Wood: lnwr_hw1522

Two unidentified LNWR locomotives head a train of what is thought to be of mixed stock of 6 and 8 wheel and bogie coaches out of the tunnel on the up line and on to New Street. The train locomotive (the second) is an unidentified 2-4-0 'Jumbo' class officially known as the "Improved Precedent" class designed by F W Webb, and 166 of them were built at Crewe Works between 1887 and 1901 which in turn was ultimately a development of John Ramsbottom's "Newton" class of 1866-73. The pilot locomotive at the front is thought to be a Webb Single or "Problem" class. C1900

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