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LMS Route: Grand Junction Railway

Hamstead and Great Barr Station: lnwrgb4465

Ex-LNWR 0-6-2T 'Coal Tank' No 1062 passes through Great Barr on a Walsall to New Street service circa 1923

Ex-LNWR 0-6-2T 'Coal Tank' No 1062 passes through Great Barr on a Walsall to New Street service circa 1923. The FW Webb designed 'Coal Tank' were so called because they were a side tank version of FW Webb's standard 17 in Coal Engine, an 0-6-0 tender engine for slow freight trains. The design was introduced in 1881 and had the same cheaply produced cast iron wheels and H-section spokes as the tender engines. A trailing radial axle supporting the bunker was added, also with two similarly cast iron wheels. Some three hundred members of the class were built between 1881 and 1897. One Coal Tank, LNWR No 1054, later LMS No 7799 before being renumbered by British Railways as No 58926 has survived in to preservation. The locomotive is owned by the National Trust and is maintained and run by the Bahamas Locomotive Society.

Photograph by HL Salmon courtesy of John Alsop

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