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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

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Ex-MR 3F 0-6-0 No 43693 is banking the freight train headed by ex-LMS 0-6-0 No 44659 bound for Bordesley Junction

Ex-MR 3F 0-6-0 No 43693 is banking the freight train headed by ex-LMS 0-6-0 No 44659 bound for Bordesley Junction onto the former GWR line. Bob Essery recounts in one of his Midland Journal articles that 'trains from Washwood Heath would often spend a couple of hours at Duddeston Road before being released to run up the Camp Hill line to Bordesley Junction. The delay was due to the GWR not being able to accept the traffic and the MR Control not wishing to be held responsible for any delay. Therefore the Midland would line up the trains in readiness which was very wasteful.'

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