Hughes/Fowler 2-6-0 at Bescot Locomotive Depot
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Hughes/Fowler 2-6-0 at Bescot Locomotive Depot
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 24 Mar 1951
Outside the large Bescot Shed is 2-6-0 No. 42894 (built 1930 as No. 13194, withdrawn 12/64). The Depot was the principal ex-LNW Depot in the Birmingham area, coded 3A by the LMSR and BR(LMR), with an allocation in 1950 of 72 steam locomotives:- 4 4-6-0, 10 2-8-0, 8 2-6-0, 43 (no less!) 0-8-0, 4 0-6-0 and 3 0-6-0T.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.563451
Longitude
-1.994056