LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Kings Norton Locomotives: mrknlms189

A pair of ex-MR class 2P 4-4-0s No 505 and No 368 are seen running at speed at the head of an express train in 1937. A member of the MR's 483 class built by Sharp Stewart in October 1899 No 505 remained in service until it was withdrawn from Templecombe shed on the old Somerset & Dorset Railway in October 1953 for immediate scrapping at Derby works. The second locomotive, No 368 was a member of the MR's 1738 class, an older MR design, in June 1886 and was to remain service until July 1929 when it was withdrawn to be scrapped by Derby works.

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