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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Coventry Loop Line
Humber Road Junction: lnwrcll110a
Close up of image 'lnwrcll110' showing the unidentified LNWR
4-4-0 George Fifth class locomotive as it passes over the junction with the
loop line. Withdrawals of the class started in 1935 and by 1939 only nine
locomotives remained whilst by 1948 at the birth of British Railways only three
locomotives remained in existence. They survived because of the serious
shortage of locomotive power during the Second World War. The three survivors
were all withdrawn before the first year of British Railways could be
celebrated with No 25321 being withdrawn in February 1948 whilst No 25350 and
No 25373 - which were allocated the BR numbers No 58011 and No 58012 in March
1948 but never carried them - were both withdrawn in May 1948.
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