The curious mix of a box-like saddletank and a GWR style pannier tank sits unhappily on ex-L&NWR Webb '4ft. 3in.' class 0-6-0 No. 27471. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say, and this 1907 conversion from an 1882 built tender engine found useful work in and around Crewe Works until withdrawal in Nov. 1939. PIctured at Crewe North MPD in October 1937.

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