Ex-LMS Hughes/Fowler 'Crab' class 2-6-0 No. 42726. Built at Horwich in October 1927 as LMS No. 13026 and withdrawn in October 1962. A lovely summer's day in 1957 sees the washing out to dry in an adjacent garden. 42726 is seen with a down passenger train on former North Stafford metals heading for Uttoxeter. It is passing the Nestle factory at Tutbury in Staffordshire where Nestle tinned milk had been produced since 1901.

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