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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
Hampton in Arden - Locomotives: lnwrhia681
LNWR 3P George V class No 228 'E Nettlefild' is seen at the
head of an up Birmingham to Euston express service in July 1921. When railways
were first constructed they frequently crossed 'rights of way', paths or lanes
that had existed for hundreds of years. The companies building the railway were
obliged by law to maintain the right of way either by providing bridges,
underpasses, level crossings or paths across the railway. In the photograph
above the L&B had provided a style in the boundary either side of the
railway and a hand rail and steps down the embankment. The track itself being
crossed by what appears to be timbers laid in parallel and in between the
sleepers which are now covered in ballast. Built as LNWR 228 at Crewe works in
January 1911 it was renumbered 5327 by the LMS in January 1927 and remained in
service until September 1936 when it was withdrawn from Willesden shed to be
scrapped at Crewe works shortly afterwards.
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