LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth
Polesworth Station: lnwr_pol1211
Another view of ex-LMS 4-6-2 Coronation Scot class No 46244
'King George VI' showing the tender and coaches standing upright with the
station in the background. This was the second accident at Polesworth involving
one of Stanier's Coronation Scot pacific locomotives. The first had occurred on
21st July 1947 and involved when the Streamlined Duchess at the head of the 8
30 am London to Liverpool Boat express crashed while rounding a bend at speed
at Polesworth, Warwickshire.
Built in streamlined form at Crewe as LMS No 6244 in July
1940 No 46244 was involved in another major accident at Grendon in July 1947
and despite this chequered career remained in service until September 1964 when
it was withdrawn from Kingmoor shed in Carlisle to be scrapped during December
1964 by Arnott & Young, West of Scotland Shipbreaking Company in Troon.
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