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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham
LMS Route: Bournville to Birmingham New Street

Birmingham New Street - BR Period Locomotives: lnwrbns_br328

Ex-LMS 4-6-0 Jubilee No 45654 "Hood" stands at the head of a Euston bound express.

There is a Warwickshire connection with the locomotive's name. The battle cruiser Hood built just after WWI was the pride of the British Navy at the start of WWII and the locomotive obviously took its name from this.

According to the HMS Hood Association website the boat wasn't named, as was generally thought, after Admiral Hood who died at Jutland but it took its name from another member of the Hood family, Viscount Hood of Whitley (1724-1816), the most famous one.

The Hoods were resident at Whitley Abbey, Coventry from the latter part of the 198th century well into the 19th century and there is still a Lord Hood of Whitley who resides in the London area according to Burke's Peerage. There was a Hood House at Whitley Abbey School until the house system was scrapped some years ago. 8th Aug 1964

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