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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth LMS: Nuneaton to
Birmingham New Street
Water Orton Station: mrwo1775
An unidentified ex-LMS 8F 2-8-0 locomotive passes through
Water Orton with an empty mineral train towards Derby. On the down line from
Whitacre is another ex-LMS 8F 2-8-0 locomotives with an engineer's train of
ballast apparently being aided by another at the rear. Brian Hughes, who
supplied Dave Underwood's photographs, states 'the ballast train is in fact
being pulled out of the refuge siding situated alongside the down slow from
Whitacre. I often saw wagons stabled in this siding but rarely if ever saw the
locomotive depositing....or picking them up. This photo is therefore another
rarity recording as it does one such removal of a train'.
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