LNER Class A1 pacific No. 2543 Melton taking water at Langley troughs near Stevenage on the East Coast Main Line in July 1938. The locomotive has the original 180lb boiler, receiving a 220lb boiler nine years later in 1947, and is right-hand drive. It is fitted with the long-lap, long-travel valve-gear. It was renumbered 44 in 1946 and finally 60044. It was built in 1924 and withdrawn in June, 1963. The other Melton, after which the locomotive was named, was a thoroughbred racehorse named by its owner after Melton Constable in Norfolk. In 1885, the four-legged Melton won the Derby at Epsom and the St. Leger at Doncaster.
Image credit: Sutton Coldfield Railway Society Moseley Archive
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A Zoom presentation of photographs from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society’s Moseley Archive of over 2000 photographs taken by the late Percy Moseley between 1911 and the 1970s. This presentation will cover the years from 1937 to 1945 and will be made by Robin Mathams, joint archivist.
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