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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh1782
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Great Western Railway 3226 class 2-4-0 No 3226
passing the original Birmingham North Signal box with an up suburban passenger
train. This timber framed signal box was built circa 1884 and had a 60 lever
mechanical frame. No 3226 was built in February 1889 at Wolverhampton Works as
the first locomotive of lot S2. The design was very similar to the
111 class and it was originally proposed to number these
locomotives in the same series, with No 3226 actually running for about a week
as No. 104. The photograph shows the locomotive with a flush firebox, parallel
boilers with central tall dome (W3 type), which is how the six locomotives in
the class were originally built. No 3226 had a similar Swindon boiler design
(S4 type) fitted in February 1905, but this had a large dome placed further
back. The locomotives mainly worked over the ex-West Midlands Railway lines
from sheds at Worcester and Hereford, but after 1907 No 3226 was moved to the
Bristol division. No 3226 was withdrawn in May 1919.
Robert Ferris
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