LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Stockingford Station: mrs1085

Ex-LNWR G2a 0-8-0 No 49142 is seen standing on the reception road used by Stockingford branch line. The locomotive was originally built by Francis Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LNWR, as a 'B' Class compound locomotive. As with many of Webb's compound designs, they were rebuilt by his successor George Whale in simple form and were acknowledged as being extremely useful machines, They too were subject to development primarily with different types of boilers with No 49142 having the latest G2a type fitted which it retained until it was withdrawn from service in December 1962.

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