LMS: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
LMS: Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street

Water Orton Station: mrwo1855

English Electric Type 4 D229 is held by signals at Water Orton station before preceding on to the line to Kingsbury Junction. Because of the housing being built on the site of the former sidings (on the left) and because semaphore signalling is still in operation, the date of the photograph is thought to be circa 1967-8. D229 was built by the English Electric Company's Vulcan Foundry in August 1959 and was renumbered under TOPs in March 1974 as 40029 which it carried until November 1984 when it was withdrawn from service to be scrapped by Doncaster works.

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