LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Harborne

Rotton Park Station: lnwrrp2179a

Close up of image 'lnwrrp2179' showing the former L & Y 0-4-0ST Class 1153 No 11221 locomotive marshalling vans in Mitchell & Butler's sidings in 1949. The locomotive was being used precisely for the purpose it was designed for, namely shunting, which is why its still fitted with dumb buffers. Dumb buffers are an element of design used since the birth of railways and effectively were just a solid mass of timber rather than being the normal sprung kind seen on modern locomotives and wagons. Built as Lancashire & Yorkshire No 155 in Horwich in November 1901, No 11221 was absorbed by British Railways and became No 51221 which it remained until it was withdrawn in January 1961 from 82E Barrow Road shed in Bristol.

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