Six months after official withdrawal, ex-LMS Fowler 'Jinty' 0-6-0 Tank has been shorn of its tanks and has undergone a remarkable transformation into a steam heating boiler. It will shortly receive a new number (2022) for no discernable reason! It will then be transferred to Collyhurst carriage sidings in Manchester, carrying out steam heating duties until final decommissioning in 1972. A few parts of this locomotive remain at the Midland Railway Centre in Butterley as spares for a preserved 'Jinty'. 47564 was built by Hunslet of Leeds in Apr. 1928 as LMS No.16647 and was withdrawn in Mar. 1965.

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