LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare Route

Stratford on Avon Station: smjsa318

Ex-LMS 4F 0-6-0 No 44175 running tender first pilots classmate No 44015 on a Class K freight service to Broom on 24th April 1955. British Railways categorised a Class K as providing freight, mineral or ballast train stopping at intermediate stations; branch freight train. Whilst not unknown for locomotives to run smokebox to smokebox it wasn't a popular configuration as both crews would be subject to the fine coal dust blowing in their eyes through their journey. The working horse on the right pulling its farm cart was fairly common still in the 1950s. It was in the 1960s with the growing economy and cheaper petrol costs that they largely disappeared from our roads.

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