A wonderfully atmospheric 1963 New Year's Day photograph taken in Redditch Goods Yard, Worcestershire, you can almost feel the chill. The subject is ex-LMS Fowler 3F or 'Jinty' Tank No. 47308. The coal merchant beyond will be having a hard time filling his sacks from the piles of frozen coal! 47308 was built by Hunslet of Leeds in Mar. 1925 as LMS No. 7148 and was withdrawn in Aug. 1964.

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