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LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare Route

E&WJR and SMJ - Locomotives and Rolling Stock: smjsa368

E&WJR 0-6-0 No 2 stands alongside a coal stack thought to be outside Stratford engine shed

E&WJR 0-6-0 No 2 stands alongside a coal stack thought to be outside Stratford engine shed. Dick Riley and Bill Simpson write in their book on the line, 'appearance meant a great deal to the early railway companies and this photograph is a good example of this. Information available describes the inside frames were painted Indian Red with the coupling rods and inside cranks in vermilion. After 1920 vermilion was also applied to inside the fluting of the rods. The body of the locomotive was painted black with 2 inch broad green lines edged in yellow, this was topped with a highly polished brass dome. In the days of the S&MJR lettering was gold leaf with red shadow. Buffer beams were vermilion lined with a fine yellow line. Number plates were vermilion with raised edges and numbers in polished brass'.

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