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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth LMS: Nuneaton to
Birmingham New Street
Water Orton Station: mrwo1840
Ex-LMS 8F 2-8-0 No 48674 passes Water Orton East Junction
Signal Box and takes the Kingsbury line with a Class F freight working in May
1966. Built in March 1944, No 48674 was allocated to 2B Oxley shed at the time
of the photograph having been allocated previously to 3A Bescot shed from March
1953 to March 1966, following its move to 8C Speke Junction shed in February
1967, No 48674 was withdrawn from service from the shed in December of the same
year to be scrapped. British Railways categorised a Class F freight service as
an 'Express freight, livestock, perishable or ballast train NOT fitted with
the automatic brake'.
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