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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Birmingham New Street - Southern Approaches:
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Ex-LMS 2-6-0+0-6-2 Garrett No 47967 is seen running bunker
first past Bordesley Junction Signal Box on a Class J through empty mineral
working to Kings Norton sidings. Built at Beyer Peacock in August 1930 No 47967
was to remain in service until November 1957 when it was withdrawn from Hasland
shed to be scrapped in December 1957 by Crewe works. Whilst the class was
designed to offer considerable power having two sets of powered chassis, the
design was flawed by the meddling of Derby's Design Office in compelling Beyer
Peacock to adopt standard Midland Railway components. Thus axle boxes designed
for small 0-6-0 locomotives were used on these powerful locomotives leading to
the constant hot axle problem that plagued the LMS for the first decade of its
existence. Poor draughting and short travel slides to name but a few of the
mandatory requirements compounded the problem. The power requirement to obviate
the need for double heading heavy goods trains was finally fulfilled within a
few years by the introduction by William Stanier's 2-8-0 8F design and later in
British Railways days, by Riddles 2-10-0 9F design.
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