LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway

Bournville Shed: mrb1536

Deeley 0-4-0T No 1528, one of a class of ten, was photographed in the roundhouse at Bournville by WL Good, on Saturday 14th August 1948. The presence of this small shunting engine there is something of a mystery. The 18D shed plate shows it was allocated to Staveley in Derbyshire, which had many such engines on its books. I wonder if it was en route to or from Gloucester. The depot there might have borrowed it to cover the duties of one of the two engines of this class on its own allocation, while theirs was in the works at Derby. Dramatic evidence of this type of small shunting engine turning up in other unexpected places is on 'lnwr_tam3130', which shows one involved in an accident at Tamworth.

John Dews

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