LMS Route: The Shakespeare Route

Goldicot Cutting : smjel230

Ex-WD 2-8-0 No 90188, with steam to spare, works a Class H service westbound through Goldicott Cutting in June 1962. Locomen remarked on the dramatic effect of Goldicote cutting after the gentle rolling landscape of Warwickshire; suddenly you were in this deep cleft with the exhaust of the engine reverberating from each side. The place of those sights and sounds now lies beneath the soil, as the cutting is completely filled in. Built as WD No 7214 by the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow in September 1943, it was renumbered by the War Department as No 77214 in January 1945 and again by British Railways in February 1951 as No 90188 which it carried until April 1965 when it was withdrawn from 41E Staverley shed at Barrow Hill to be scrapped by J Cashmore's of Great Bridge.

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