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Water Orton Station: mrwo1775

An unidentified ex-LMS 8F 2-8-0 locomotive passes through Water Orton with an empty mineral train towards Derby

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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