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Coventry Shed: lnwrcov4054

Ex-LNWR G2 Class 0-8-0 No 49431 stands in steam outside the new Coventry shed on 2nd March 1958

Ex-LNWR G2 Class 0-8-0 No 49431 stands in steam outside the new Coventry shed on 2nd March 1958. Built as LNWR No 2255 by Crewe in July 1922, it was renumbered by the LMS as No 9431 in May 1927 and then as No 49431 by British Railways in May 1948 which it carried until December 1962 when it was withdrawn from 8F Springs Branch shed in Wigan to be scrapped by J Cashmore's of Great Bridge.

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