LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham
Coughton Station: mrcou376
Ex-LMS 4MT 2-6-0 Mogul 'Flying Pig' or 'Doodle Bug' No 43013
stands at the head of an Ashchurch to Birmingham local passenger train not long
before the station closed. Designed by Ivatt during his very short tenure as
CME after the death of Fairburn who had been Sir William Stanier's successor,
No 43013 was built at Horwich works in April 1947 and remained in service for
only eighteen years before being withdrawn from Heaton Mersey (CLC) shed in
October 1965 for scrapping by TW Ward Ltd of Killamarsh.
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