LMS Route: Water Orton to Walsall

Sutton Park: mrspk341b

Ex-LMS Stanier 2-6-4T No 42448, running bunker first, is seen blowing off steam whilst at the head of a Walsall to Birmingham local train. Whilst still sporting the LMS initials on its tank sides the number has had a 4 inserted prior to its LMS running number meaning the photograph was taken in either 1948/9 or at the very latest in 1950.

Classified as 4MT No 42448 was a two-cylinder version of Fowler's earlier and very successful parallel boiler locomotive. Number 42448 was built at Derby works to Lot 128 in June 1936 and lasted a little above a quarter of a century in service being withdrawn from Trafford Park shed in January 1962 to be scrapped by Derby works in Apr 1962.

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