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LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare Route

E&WJR and SMJ - Locomotives and Rolling Stock: smjsa234

Ex-E&WJR 0-6-0 No 2306, formerly E&WJR No 12 but now in its LMS guise, is busy working within the confines of Stratford station

Ex-E&WJR 0-6-0 No 2306, formerly E&WJR No 12 but now in its LMS guise, is busy working within the confines of Stratford station. With buffers hard against each other, in all probability it was going to provide banking assistance to a goods train tackling the climb up to Goldicote Cutting which was a little over four miles away and for a good part of the journey was at 1 in 80. Built in 1900 by Beyer Peycock the locomotive was in 1927 re-numbered No 2399 to clear the series for the Fowler 2-6-4 tanks before being withdrawn to be scrapped in 1930. Dick Riley and Bill Simpson wrote in their book on the railway that when the LMS took over some former S&MJR drivers were taught the road through to St Pancras. Alternatively some Kentish Town men were taught the S&MJR route.

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