LMS Route: Water Orton to Walsall

Sutton Town Station: mrsc470

Saltley shed's 0-6-4T No 2038 was a member of the MR's 2000 class better known as a "Flatiron" and is seen here on a local passenger service. Although the train is to a great extent masking the station building it can be seen from the roof that its layout was similar to the stations along the line. Where it differed, presumably reflecting its station being a town facility, is that the extensions beyond the "wings" of the station are two storey not single storey as seen at Streetly and Penns.

The locomotive's direction of travel is thought to be Sutton Town to Birmingham because photographic evidence at Sutton Park shows tank engines running round their trains after hauling the trains from Birmingham facing the direction of travel. Number 2038 was built by Derby works in September 1907 and lasted in service for 28 years before being withdrawn from Saltley shed in August 1935 to be scrapped by Derby works in the same year. Circa early 1920s

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