LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Nuneaton Abbey Street Station: mrna1923

Ex-LMS 5MT 2-6-0 No 42971 runs tender first and 'light engine' through Abbey Street towards Leicester, probably returning to Nuneaton shed after a spot of shunting in Stockingford yard. The middle peg (signal) is up which will direct the engine 'down the Valley' to the Trent Valley main line. Its a snowy day and the platforms have not been cleared. Built as LMS No 13271 in January 1934, No 42972 was renumbered soon afterwards in December 1935 as LMS No 2971 later to be renumbered by British Railways as No 42971 in January 1949, which it retained until December 1964 when it was withdrawn from 5E Nuneaton shed to be scrapped by J Cashmore's of Great Bridge.

Peter Lee

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