LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Kings Norton Locomotives: mrknlms226

Ex-MR 2P 4-4-0 No 383 doubleheads LMS 5MT 4-6-0 No 5288 on an up express south of Kings Norton in 1937. The locomotive is wearing the reporting number M24 on its smoke box. Built by the MR to their 1808 design at Derby in June 1888 aNo 383 remained in service until it was withdrawn from Derby shed in July 1952, the last of its class, to be scrapped shortly afterwards. Stanier 'Black 5' No 5288 was built by Armstrong Whitworth in December 1936 and was withdrawn from Heaton shed, Merseyside in November 1967 before being scrapped by Drapers of Hull in April 1968.

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