LMS Route: Grand Junction Railway

Hamstead and Great Barr Station: lnwrgb2285

Ex-LNWR 0-8-0 G2a No 49081 is seen standing at the up platform at Great Barr station with a freight from Bescot yard. Phil Bartlett writes 'the train isn't passing through the station - it is actually a trip locomotive shunting Hamstead colliery sidings. If you look closely you'll see the loco lamp above the tender buffer, the fireman looking back towards Hamstead, and the smoke pouring vertically out the chimney, suggesting the engine is more or less stationary. Built as LNWR No 2658 by Crewe works in February 1910, No 49081 was renumbered by the LMS as No 9081 and given the 7F power classification and remained in service until November 1962 when it was withdrawn from 21B Bescot shed.

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