LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Alcester Station: mra1293

Ex-MR 4-4-0 2P No 512 passes through Alcester station with the 1:20pm New Street to Ashchurch service on Saturday 18th September 1948. The train will call at Evesham and is made up of five LMS corridor coaches which was typical of the through trains to Ashchurch in the 1930s and 1940s. A member of the Midland Railway's 483 Class, No 512 was built by Sharp Stewart & Company in November 1899 and was to remain in service for just over a year being withdrawn from 21A Saltley shed in January 1950 to be cut up by Derby works. Although assigned by British Railways the number 40512 it was never affixed.

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