LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Broom Junction Station: mrbj543

MR 3F 0-6-0 No 3460 with tender piled high blows off as it is about to leave Broom Junction station for Evesham and then on to Ashchurch. The goods yard whilst handling some local merchant's requirements for coal was in the main used to handle traffic being transferred between the two routes. 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. Number 3460 was a MR 1873 design built at Derby works in 1893 and lasted 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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