GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Wood End Platform: gwrwe2859

GWR 0-6-0PT 655 class No 1774 approaches Wood End tunnel with a local passenger service, comprised mainly of closed coupled four-wheel coaching stock, to Birmingham. Built at Wolverhampton works in February 1893, No 1774 was to remain in service until October 1932 when it was withdrawn from TYS Tyseley shed to be scrapped by Swindon works. The 655 Class, designed by George Armstrong, and numbering fifty-two members in total, were in effect a continuation of the 645 Class, with longer frames though using the same 4'6" wheels and 15'6" wheelbase. They were to be the last of the larger type of tank engine to be built at Wolverhampton. Between 1912 and 1930 Pannier tanks were fitted to all of the class apart from No 1772.

Photographer Henry L Salmon

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