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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Hampton in Arden - Locomotives: lnwrhia681

LNWR 3P George V class No 228 'E Nettlefild' is seen at the head of an up Birmingham to Euston express service in July 1921

LNWR 3P George V class No 228 'E Nettlefild' is seen at the head of an up Birmingham to Euston express service in July 1921. When railways were first constructed they frequently crossed 'rights of way', paths or lanes that had existed for hundreds of years. The companies building the railway were obliged by law to maintain the right of way either by providing bridges, underpasses, level crossings or paths across the railway. In the photograph above the L&B had provided a style in the boundary either side of the railway and a hand rail and steps down the embankment. The track itself being crossed by what appears to be timbers laid in parallel and in between the sleepers which are now covered in ballast. Built as LNWR 228 at Crewe works in January 1911 it was renumbered 5327 by the LMS in January 1927 and remained in service until September 1936 when it was withdrawn from Willesden shed to be scrapped at Crewe works shortly afterwards.

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