GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Shed: gwrt2364

Ex-LMS 4-6-0 Class 5XP No 45593 'Kholapur' is seen stored at Tyseley shed on 29th September 1968. A little over a month after mainline steam finished on British Railways, Peter Brumby photographed the locomotive. Cosmetically No 45593 appears to be in reasonable external condition, but is carrying economy unlined BR green livery and has what seems to be a welded patch on the smokebox. Built in 1934 by the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow, to Lot 118, and designed by William Stanier. In May 1936 she was named Kolhapur after Kolhapur, a princely state in western India. The locomotive is preserved for prosperity.

Courtesy John Turner 53A Models

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