LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
Hampton in Arden - Locomotives: lnwrhia696
LNWR 2F 0-6-0 Cauliflower No 422 is seen at the head of an
up Birmingham to Rugby local passenger service in July 1921. The locomotive is
remarkable clean although the rear of the tender shows signs of being patched
probably to replace a rusted section of plating. Carrying water, and being of
riveted construction, tenders were prone to leakages which over a period of
time would rust through the steel plate. Built at Crewe works in October 1900
it was allocated the LMS No 8545 in the late 1920s and was finally withdrawn in
May 1934 to be scrapped at Crewe works.
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