LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

Shilton Station: lnwr_shil2384

LNWR 0-6-0 '18 inch goods' No 168 is seen approaching Shilton station with a down goods train. The 18 inch goods locomotive was better known by its nickname 'Cauliflower' so called because when the LNWR Coat of Arms was applied to its central splasher from a distance it looked like the vegetable. Built by Crewe works in April 1900 No 168 was later renumbered by the LMS as No 8325 which it carried until it was withdrawn from service in August 1930.

An original photograph by Henry L Salmon

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