LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

Wilnecote Station: mrw446

Ex-LMS 5XP 4-6-0 No 45597 'Barbados' is seen passing Perrin and Harrison's Sidings signal box on 20th May 1963. The tall signal seen above the train was provided at this height because lineside structures or bends would have been obscuring any signal erected to the standard height. However it would have been supplemented by a repeater - another arm much lower down - so that in very poor visibility such as fog it could be seen by the crew when slowly passing by. The locomotive was allocated to 55A Holbeck shed in Leeds and was heading a fitted freight to Birmingham. Built as LMS No 5597 by the North British Locomotive Company in January 1935, No 45597 remained in service until January 1965 when it was withdrawn from 55A Holbeck shed.

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