LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Canley Halt: lnwrchg1299

Ex-LMS 6P 4-6-0 rebuilt Jubilee class No 45735 'Comet' is seen on an up mixed goods train approaching Fletchamstead Highway bridge on 16th April 1961 with the site of the now closed Torrington Company factory on the right. This was the bridge where the Fletchamstead Station was to have been built if the LMS' 1930s plan had bore fruit. Built at Crewe works in November 1936 No 45735, together with classmate No 45734, were the 1942 pioneer rebuilds using the new 2A tapered boiler later adopted by the Royal Scot and Patriot rebuilds. Withdrawn from service in October 1964 from Annesley shed it was scrapped in January 1965 at J Cashmore of Great Bridge.

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