GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Wood End Platform: gwrwe2851

GWR 0-4-2T 517 class No 1425 leaves Wood End Tunnel with a local Birmingham passenger service, made up of four-wheel close coupled coaching stock, to Stratford upon Avon. Built by Wolverhampton works in June 1877, No 1425 was to remain in service until August 1932 when it was withdrawn from LMTN Leamington Spa shed to be scrapped by Swindon works circa 1932. The '517' class locomotives were classified as ungrouped and uncoloured allowing them to operate anywhere, but with their loads fixed according to the gradient and local conditions (These details were published in the appendixes to the area Service Time Tables). After a long and useful life most were withdrawn and scrapped with the introduction of the Collett 0-4-2T 48xx class locomotives. See 'gwrbsh1789' for a view of the original member of the class at Snow Hill on the 'Dudley Dodger'.

Photographer Henry L Salmon

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