LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Birmingham - Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Harborne

Monument Lane Station: lnwrml1515

British Railways built 4-6-0 'Black 5' No 44716 is seen leaving New Street north tunnel whilst on an empty stock working in March 1961. In the background is part of the site of Monument Lane shed whilst in the foreground are a rake of coal wagons standing on Malthouse sidings. The structure to right and above the locomotive is the ash pit bucket with at least one wagon fully loaded with ash. The two Compounds are amongst the very last to reside at the shed and standing at the end of the head shunt at the south end of shed. Just a few months later with the start of the summer timetable the shed closed to steam. Brian Swancott, a former passed fireman at Monument Lane, writes 'the compounds were used as pilots on some Euston runs as required and also on summer specials to Blackpool etc'. Built by Horwich works in November 1948, some eleven months after nationalisation, No 44716 lasted less than seventeen years in service before being withdrawn from Crewe (South) shed in July 1965.

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