LMS Route: Grand Junction Railway
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
LMS Route: Birmingham-Soho-Perry Barr-Birmingham

Aston Shed: lnwra22

View of Aston shed and visiting locomotives shortly after the erection of its new coaling plant and ash disposal facilities. Hawkins and Reeves note in their book LMS Sheds - Volume One, The L&NWR that coaling plant was of relatively unusual design and illustrates that the LMS commissioned a variety of styles from a number of manufacturers. Detail differences were noticeable even in individual plants built by the same company. Whether any of the 4-6-0 Patriot class locomotives seen above on 18th August 1935 are allocated to Aston is not known. Aston shed was primarily freight orientated, though as Hawkins and Reeves note, 'though not of a particularly heavy nature'. Longer passenger services tended to be handled by locomotives allocated to Bushbury (Wolverhampton) or Monument Lane sheds.

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