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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Birmingham-Soho-Perry Barr-Birmingham
Perry Barr Junction: lnwrpbj1513
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Ex-LMS 8F 2-8-0 No 48693, on a north bound freight, comes
off the line from Soho to join the Grand Junction line en-route to Bescot in
May 1959. The line to the left proceeds on to Witton and Aston along the
original Grand Junction Railway's route to Birmingham. The first vehicle behind
the locomotive is an old locomotive tender used for carrying the sludge drained
from locomotive boilers during their periodic washouts. Built by Brighton works
in March 1944, No 48693 was one of the many hundreds of locomotives ordered by
the Railway Executive during the war to both LMS and ROD designs. The 8F
locomotives were acknowledged as being one of the best freight locomotives
built and were one of the last freight locomotives to operate on British
Railways. The closure of steam locomotive sheds was undertaken on a
geographical basis with the LMS's north west sheds being the last. Hence after
being transferred northwards No 48693 was to remain in service until it was
withdrawn from Northwich shed (CLC) in April 1967.
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