LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth
Trent Valley Lineside - Cathiron: lnwr_cath1131
Ex-LMS 7P 4-6-0 'Rebuilt Royal Scot' class No 46160 'Queen
Victoria's Rifleman' is seen without a breath of steam at her chimney whilst at
the head of a down express circa 1956. Built as LMS No 6160 at Derby works in
August 1930 by Fowler with large parallel boiler No 46160 was rebuilt with
tapered boiler to the form seen above and remained in service until May 1965
when it was withdrawn from Kingmoor shed at Carlisle to be scrapped in July
1965 by the Motherwell Machinery & Scrap Company of Inshaw Works.
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