Bournville Shed: MR 0-6-4T Class 2000 'Flatiron' No 2038 stands at the throat of the yard in August 1919

LMS Routes

London North Western Railway:

Rugby to Wolverhampton
Rugby to Leamington
Rugby to Market Harborough
Nuneaton to Leamington
Coventry Loop Line
Leamington to Weedon
Trent Valley Line
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Birmingham New Street to Harborne
Birmingham-Soho-
Perry Barr-Birmingham

Midland Railway:

Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Evesham to Birmingham
Hampton in Arden to Whitacre
Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Rugby to Leicester
Water Orton to Walsall
Halesowen to Northfield

Stratford Midland Junction Railway

The Shakespeare Route

Bournville Shed: mrb1552

MR 0-6-4T Class 2000 'Flatiron' No 2038 stands at the throat of the yard in August 1919

Midland 0-6-4T No 2038 is seen soon after arrival in the yard at Bournville on 31st August 1919. It would have been painted in the Midland's passenger engine livery of lined crimson lake. The railwayman posing with his shovel at the back of the engine is the one seen on the footplate of No 3425 (see image 'mrb11a'). He was probably responsible for the disposal of arrivals that day. Built at Derby in 1907, No 2038 is still in original condition, fitted with saturated 'H1' round top boiler, side tanks extending the full length of the boiler & with only two spectacle plates at the front of the cab. Bournville was probably its home depot in 1919 and definitely was so in 1920. Despite being rebuilt in 1926 the engine was withdrawn from service in August 1935.

Links to other photos taken on 31st August 1919 are 'mrb8', 'mrb11', 'mrb13', 'mrb484'.

LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway

Bournville Shed: mrb1552