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

Monument Lane Station: lnwrmlsh1515

BR-built but to an LMS design 4-6-0 Stanier Black 5 No 44716, on an empty stock working in March 61, leaves the New Street's north tunnel passes the site of the shed as it approaches Monument Lane station. Number 44716 was built by Horwich works in November 1948 eleven months after nationalisation and lasted less than seventeen years in service being withdrawn from Crewe (South) in July 1965 before being scrapped by Birds of Long Marston, Warwickshire in September 1965.

The coal wagons standing in front and left of the camera are the old Malthouse sidings whilst the south end of the shed is in the background. The structure to right and above the locomotive is the ash pit bucket with at least one wagon fully loaded with ash. The two Compounds are amongst the very last to reside at the shed and standing at the end of the head shunt at the south end of shed. Just a few months later with the start of the summer timetable the shed closed to steam.

Brian Swancott, a former passed fireman at Monument Lane, writes "the compounds were used as pilots on some Euston runs as required and also on summer specials to Blackpool etc".

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