LMS Route: Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

Saltley Shed: mrsalt660

BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92066 in company with ex-LMS 5MT 4-6-0s No 44775 and No 45440 on the stabling roads inside Saltley shed's No 3 roundhouse on 18th March 1956. BR Standard 9F class No 92066 was built at Crewe works in December 1955 and was fitted with Westinghouse air pumps for the Tyne Dock to Consett iron ore freight services and remained in service until May 1965 when it was withdrawn from Tyne Dock shed to be scrapped in by G Cohen of Cargo Fleet in Middlesborough.

Built by Crewe works as LMS No 4775 in June 1947, No 44775 remained in service for twenty years being withdrawn in October 1967 from Kingsmoor shed in Carlisle to be scrapped by J McWilliam & Sons of Shettleston. Richard Strange writes 'The locomotive was withdrawn during week which ended on 4th November 1967 and was sold on 8th December 1967 and sent off to the breakers on 27th February 1968. There is no evidence of when it was cut up'. Separated by ten years, classmate No 45440 was built by Armstrong Whitworth as LMS No 5440 in November 1937 and was in service for thirty years being withdrawn in September 1967 from Edge Hill shed in Liverpool to be scrapped in March 1968 by J Cashmore of Newport.

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