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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Birmingham -
Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to
Harborne
Monument Lane Shed: lnwrmlsh81
View of a clean Monument Lane shed showing an unidentified
solitary ex-LNWR 0-6-2T locomotive. With no other locomotives evident at the
shed it must not only be a working day but one when the shed was fully
stretched in handling its assigned trips. Holiday periods were just such one
occasion when the city's factories would close down for a week and tens of
thousands of workers and their families would travel to the seaside both for
the week and for excursions. In such instances all types of locomotives would
be pressed into service including goods locomotives. The photographer is
looking in the general direction of Wolverhampton with the main line from New
Street to Wolverhampton out of view to the right. The shed, known to enginemen
as the "new shed" was built in 1884 to a non-standard LNWR design with two
pitched roofs instead of the normal northlight pattern arrangement.
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