Impressive 1910 photo

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:34 pm

Impressive photo of a London & North Western 4-4-0 under a trainshed, in 1910.

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?n ... y_1910.jpg

Joshua K. Blay · **Posted:** Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:42 pm

Pretty sure this is from the "Precursor" class built c. 1904- a very successful engine of the time, heavily utilized with different trains.

Joshua

Gavin Hamilton · **Posted:** Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:50 am

Broad Street station was "modernised" into an office block in the 1980's - this is called Broadgate. The only time I paid a visit to Broad Street was the late 1970's when there was a very sparse EMU service and it was obvious that the end was near.

I'm not 100% certain that the locomotive is a Precursor as there were some rebuilds of earlier Webb designs using Precursor boilers. Numbers, unless you have a list, are no clue because the LNWR just filled in the gaps - like the Pennsylvania did.

G