LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
LMS Route: Birmingham-Soho-Perry Barr-Birmingham
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_br354

ex-LNWR 0-6-2T "Watford Tank" No 58900 works as station pilot moving coaching stock. In this view the second branding of BR can be seen, following the lettering "British Railways" BR brought out the "Lion on a bike" crest.

At first the design was initiated so that the crest on both sides of the locomotive faced the front of the locomotive. The was ruled not to be correct by the keepers of Heraldry matters who ruled that the design must face one direction only, the left. 25th Aug 1953

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