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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh1782

Great Western Railway ‘3226’ class 2-4-0 No 3226 passing the original Birmingham North Signal box with an up suburban passenger train

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 No 3226 was withdrawn in May 1919.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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