B445025 LNER design Iron ore hopper brake handle across end [Diag 160 Lot 2040 Shildon 1949] Conserved @ Goathland NYMR 2017-07-17 © Paul Bartlett [4w]
Unusual survivor, the vacuum pipe is a late non prototypical addition. BR built 150 without poking holes, the LNER ones had these. Strangely nearly 500 were sold to Rhodesia, requiring reguaging and other changes - how this one survived I don't know but some had gone into internal use at steelworks before the sale
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