LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway

Bournville Shed: mrb10

Midland Railway 1P 0-4-4T No 1327, bunker filled with coal for its next trip, stands in a siding at Bournville on Sunday 9th April 1922. Fireman's tools are stowed on top of the side tank. There is a man on the footplate, but he may be a friend of the photographer rather than a railwayman. The young trees in the background probably mark the boundary of the adjoining Cotteridge Park. The engine was one of the two hundred and five Johnson 0-4-4Ts built between 1875 and 1900. Built in June 1885 at the Midland Railway Derby Works, this one entered service as No 1734. It became No 1327 in the 1907 renumbering scheme. It would have been painted red, the railway's standard colour for passenger engines, when photographed. This would have been changed to lined black by the time it was withdrawn in April 1940.

John Dews

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