37401 rumbles across the Park on Wednesday afternoon with a great-looking engineers train of empty concrete sleeper wagons, complete with lifting gear and generator. This was 7G25 from Bescot to Washwood Heath Cemex depot.
Certainly ! Half a dozen were loaned to Tyseley and Bescot in the late 1960s for driver training purposes, which worked most routes in the area. Steve Jones had a photo on his website of a double-headed pair departing Bescot on a mixed freight via the Park... Very occasionally Hydraulics would work through to Crewe from the WR via Sutton Park... Bescot of course often saw Westerns on freights (usually the china clay), Hymeks passing through on Worcester-Shrewsbury parcels and Cardiff-Soho Pool tanks etc. Warships also appeared sporadically on the parcels and other freights from the WR.
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Another nice shot. Has there ever been a more characterful loco than a 37....?
Yep, a Warship !!
Maybe... but has a 42 ever crossed the park??
Certainly ! Half a dozen were loaned to Tyseley and Bescot in the late 1960s for driver training purposes, which worked most routes in the area.
Steve Jones had a photo on his website of a double-headed pair departing Bescot on a mixed freight via the Park...
Very occasionally Hydraulics would work through to Crewe from the WR via Sutton Park...
Bescot of course often saw Westerns on freights (usually the china clay), Hymeks passing through on Worcester-Shrewsbury parcels and Cardiff-Soho Pool tanks etc. Warships also appeared sporadically on the parcels and other freights from the WR.
Warships are ace, but nothing beats 37s!!
I didn't realise just how much hydraulic activity there has been on the Midland lines.
Warships climbing up Soho Road would have sounded nice.
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