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Coventry Station: lnwrcov3951

Ex-LMS 4-6-0 5MT No 45073 passes through Coventry on the fast line with an up parcels train in the late 1950s

Ex-LMS 4-6-0 5MT No 45073 passes through Coventry on the fast line with an up parcels train in the late 1950s. No 45073 was one of Stanier's mixed traffic masterpieces, a member of a class of eight hundred and forty-two locomotives known to enthusiasts as 'Black Fives'. This was to differentiate them from his passenger express class, the Jubilees, which carried LMS Crimson Lake livery. Built at Crewe works in June 1935, No 45073 was to remain in service until the end of steam on British Railways, being withdrawn in August 1968 from 10D Lockstock Hall shed to be scrapped.

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