LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Washwood Heath Sidings: mrwhg623
Ex-Midland Railway 0-6-0 2F No 58261 is seen passing under
the ex-LNWR bridge whilst shunting at the West end of Washwood Heath's down
sidings on 27th April 1957. Bob Essery comments in Midland Record No 26 that
the ex-MR's Class 2F locomotives were still being used in the Birmingham area
being ideal for many of the local trip workings. Built by Dubbs & Co circa
1892 it was numbered, post-1907, as Midland Railway No 3423 which it retained
during LMS ownership but was then renumbered by British Railways as No 58261
remaining as such until January 1960 when it was withdrawn from Saltley shed to
be scrapped by Derby works.
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