Birmingham New Street Station

LNWR Locomotives: lnwrbns_pg1957

LNWR 0-6-2T Watford Tank No 2037 is seen standing at Platform 3 running bunker first on a New Street to Walsall local passenger service June 1905. Richard Foster states in the second volume of his four-part series on Birmingham New Street - The Story of a Great Station, that No 2037 was allocated to Aston shed at the time of the photograph and the route the Walsall Express would take would be via Soho Road. To the right of the locomotive can be seen a standard LNWR water column with its 'bag' (the cloth tube the water ran through) chained back to the column.

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