Birmingham New Street Station - BR Period Locomotives: Another view of ex-LMS 2P 4-4-0 No 40646 on the Stephenson Locomotive Society special on 14th April 1962

LMS Routes

London North Western Railway:

Rugby to Wolverhampton
Rugby to Leamington
Rugby to Market Harborough
Nuneaton to Leamington
Coventry Loop Line
Leamington to Weedon
Trent Valley Line
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Birmingham New Street to Harborne
Birmingham-Soho-
Perry Barr-Birmingham

Midland Railway:

Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Evesham to Birmingham
Hampton in Arden to Whitacre
Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Rugby to Leicester
Water Orton to Walsall
Halesowen to Northfield

Stratford Midland Junction Railway

The Shakespeare Route

BR Period Locomotives: lnwrbns_br1995

Another view of ex-LMS 2P 4-4-0 No 40646 on the Stephenson Locomotive Society special on 14th April 1962. Officially to have been retired from Bescot shed on Saturday 12th May 1962, No 40646's retirement was delayed by one day to allow the Railway Correspondents & Travel Society's 'East Midlander Tour No 5' to Darlington go ahead. This tour departed Nottingham Victoria and was double-headed with No 40646 paired with ex-Southern Railways 4-4-0 'Schools class' No 30925 'Cheltenham'. The 1950s and 1960s was the age of the tours and specials as the Beaching cuts combined with the Modernisation plan saw branch lines being closed and classes of steam locomotives being decimated and made extinct.