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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham
Broom Junction Station: mrbj543
MR 2F 0-6-0 No 3460 with tender piled high blows steam off as it
departs Broom Junction station for Evesham and then on to Ashchurch. The
provision of two sidings in the goods yard wasn't warranted from the level of
traffic generated locally, as is evident by the lack of a goods shed. Therefore
whilst handling some local merchant's requirements for coal it was in the main
used to support traffic being transferred between the two routes, predominantly
traffic from Bristol and the West of England. However it was also a useful
mid-point for storing railway engineering materials as seen in the form of the
sleepers stacked to the right of the locomotive. Built at Derby works in 1893,
No 3460 was a member of the MR's 1873 class and remained in service until the
mass LMS standard design building programme initiated under Stanier caused its
withdrawal and scrapping in December 1933.
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