LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Broom Junction Station: mrbj543

MR 2F 0-6-0 No 3460 with tender piled high blows steam off as it departs Broom Junction station for Evesham and then on to Ashchurch. The provision of two sidings in the goods yard wasn't warranted from the level of traffic generated locally, as is evident by the lack of a goods shed. Therefore whilst handling some local merchant's requirements for coal it was in the main used to support traffic being transferred between the two routes, predominantly traffic from Bristol and the West of England. However it was also a useful mid-point for storing railway engineering materials as seen in the form of the sleepers stacked to the right of the locomotive. Built at Derby works in 1893, No 3460 was a member of the MR's 1873 class and remained in service until the mass LMS standard design building programme initiated under Stanier caused its withdrawal and scrapping in December 1933.

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