LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway

Bournville Shed: mrb1519

Two Fowler 4-4-0s, 4P No 41075 piloting 2P No 40409, double heading an up stopping train past Bournville signal box on Wednesday 6th May 1953. It was probably a service from Bristol, as the 2P's home shed was there. The Leicester based pilot may have been hitching a lift to Birmingham, to get itself nearer to home. Engines of both types were being withdrawn in the fifties. These two both went in 1957. Main line stopping services themselves faced the axe when they were labelled uneconomic by Dr Beeching in 1963.

John Dews

back