Warwickshire Railways: Railway Art

Philip Hawkins FGRA: ph8

Bordesley Morning - Philip Hawkins, Fellow of the Guild Railway Artists

A scene so commonplace that very few of us even bothered to take a glance. Bordesley was the first station out of Birmingham Snow Hill heading south and saw the passage of countless GWR pannier tanks every day on local trip freight workings such as this in charge of No 4648 heading along the down main line during the early 1960's. This engine was a Tyseley inmate for many years and was built at Swindon in 1945. No 4648 was just one of a huge collection of 57XX pannier tank engines that eventually totalled 863. Several are now preserved.

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