LMS Route: Grand Junction Railway
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
LMS Route: Birmingham-Soho-Perry Barr-Birmingham

Aston Shed: lnwra3279

View of Aston shed's relatively unusual coaling plant built by Mitchell Engineering in the early 1930s. Hawkins and Reeve state in Volume One 'LMS Engine Sheds - The L&NWR' that due to space restrictions caused by the erection of the new coaling plant and the ash disposal facilities (the plant is out of sight on the right), the original water tank was demolished having to be replaced by a new steel structure accommodating 60,000 gallons. This structure can be seen to the left of the coaling plant above the open wagon.

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