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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare
Route
SMJ Locomotives: smjsa162
An interior view of the SMJ's Stratford on Avon shed with
SMJ 0-6-0 No 10 seen on the left prior to the grouping in 1923. On the right is
part of the overhead crane with the hooks of its shear legs dangling above.
Shear legs were used to lift the locomotive sufficiently high enough so that
wheels could be removed for maintenance. Also on the right is an inspection pit
with the wheels and axles of a tender or bogie stationed on it. In the
background looking towards the camera is, according to Arthur Jordan in his
book on the SMJ, Tommy Duckett and his colleagues. After grouping, overhauling
of the locomotives was carried out at Saltley as the SMJ's Stratford shed
became a sub-shed of the ex-Midland Railway facility leaving just Tommy and his
colleague Ted Hobbis as the shed's fitters.
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