LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare Route

E&WJR and SMJ - Locomotives and Rolling Stock: smjsa48

Ex-E&WJR 0-6-0 No 17 is seen on 11th April 1924 bringing a goods train through the station 'wrong road' either to take it forward to the GWR exchange sidings or as Arthur Jordan believes "to take on to Broom Junction". As he wrongly attributes the year to 1911 we cannot be sure that the working was indeed the late running 3:15pm. Arthur recounts that it was standard practice to start for Broom from this platform as the train could get a better run at the 1:40 climb over the GWR line. The locomotive was one of a pair (the other was No 18) of Beyer Peacock locomotives delivered new to the SMJ on its formation in 1908 and was later renumbered as No 2310 by the LMS before it was withdrawn in 1925.

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