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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Castle Bromwich Station: mrcb1029

British Railways B1 4-6-0 No 61318 passes Castle Bromwich signal box with the daily Cleethorpes to New Street service on 7th July 1962

British Railways B1 4-6-0 No 61318 passes Castle Bromwich signal box with the daily Cleethorpes to New Street service on 7th July 1962. The train ran via Leicester, Nuneaton, Whitacre. By the 1960s B1s were becoming a regular sight as a number were allocated to Sheffield and worked trains to Bristol ad even Bath via Derby and Birmingham. Built by the North British Locomotive Company in May 1948, No 61318 remained in service until September 1963 when it was withdrawn from 40B Immingham shed.

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