LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare Route

SMJ Locomotives: smjsa164

SMJ 0-6-0 No 17 stands on the road alongside the shed after being coaled ready for its next turn of work. The locomotive was one of a pair being built new for the SMJ by Beyer Peacock in 1908 and after grouping was designated by the LMS as a class 2F locomotive and renumbered as No 2310 before being withdrawn in 1925. As the locomotive is still in SMJ livery and as Edge Hill Light Railway 0-6-0T No 1, formerly LBSCR 'Terrier' No 73 'Deptford', is standing behind No 17, it is thought the date of the photograph is sometime in the early 1920s. The Edge Hill Light Railway's locomotives were serviced at Stratford on Avon shed until the EHLR closed in 1925.

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