LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Camp Hill Station: mrch863

Ex-LMS 0-6-0 4F No 44516 is seen at the head of a train combining two sets of locomotives and wagons with a banker pushing hard at the rear in 1953. This is the first of two photographs capturing an unusual but not unknown practice, namely coupling two trains together to make one long train thereby allowing twice the volume of traffic to pass through this stretch of line. See image 'mrch862' for a view of the last portion of this train.

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