BR Period Locomotives: lnwrbns_br1847
Ex-LMS 4P 4-4-0 Compound No 40932 and ex-LMS 5XP 4-6-0
Jubilee class No 45599 are standing at Platforms 7 and 8 adjacent to Queens
Drive bridge on 9th July 1954. Built by the Vulcan Foundry in June 1932 No
40932 was to remain in service until May 1956 when it was withdrawn from
Barnwood shed in Gloucester to be scrapped shortly afterwards. Jubilee No 45599
was built by the North British Locomotive Company in January 1935 and was to
remain in service until August 1964 when it was withdrawn from Nuneaton shed to
be scrapped in November 1964 by J Cashmore of Great Bridge.
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