LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham
Kings Norton Locomotives: mrkn798
Ex-LMS 4-6-0 'Class 5' No 44945 is seen travelling at speed
on a Derby to Bristol express passenger train on 7th March 1954. Another of
Stanier's 'Black 5s' No 44945 was built by Horwich works in January 1946 and
remained in service until October 1966 when it was withdrawn from 2B Oxley shed
near Wolverhampton before it was scrapped in March 1967 by J Cashmore of Great
Bridge.
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