LMS Route: Water Orton to Walsall

Streetly Station: mrst339

LMS 4F 0-6-0 No 4069 is seen working tender first at the head of an engineer's ballast train one Sunday in the 1930s. The station building at Streetly was built to a similar design to those at Penns and Streetly in that it had the two outside sections of the building were set forward to the centre portion. In this view this centre portion appears to have a canopy suspended between the two 'wings' whilst single storey extensions exist on both sides. The track to the down line has recently been renewed within the confines of the station with the absence of sleepers in the four foot beneath the tender seeming to confirm that this work was carried out very recently. To the right of the tender, on the platform, are spare sleepers complete with chairs. The line never generated significant volumes of passenger traffic but it proved itself to be very useful when diversions were required for traffic from other routes as well as for carrying freight.

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