LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Bournville: mrb487
Whilst both locomotives are ancient double-framed
locomotives No 22630 retains a round-top Johnson boiler whilst stablemate No
22846 has aquired a the square-top belpaire boiler. One other obvious visual
difference caused by the boiler exchange was that the cab of a belpaire
boilered version was wider and squared-off thereby hiding the external spring
which sat above the running plate. Number 22846 was the last of the MR's 700
class to remain at Bournville when withdrawn in September 1949 after 76 years
of service being built at Derby in February 1873.
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