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PERK OF THE JOB

            The signalman gets a very good view of the train! .... given the fact that the sun nearly made it as seen in the distance could alternatively call this NEARLY THERE.....!
LMS 4-6-0 5XP 5690 Leander passes Dorrington on 13-3-82
There is a tendency in most of us to go for the one classic train shot but by taking this early it gives a good few of the signal box and semaphores and captures the amount of smoke being chucked out.
Dorrington station is long closed, at one point there was a milk depot which was rail connected over to the right and the tracks can still be seen in the photo. 
The Dorrington Creamery was established by Midland Farmers Ltd in 1921 and originally sent milk in churns to London and Birmingham Independent Milk Supplies.
Subsequently the depot was owned by Independent Milk Supplies in Rossmore Road, London, between the Marylebone passenger terminus and the carriage shed
After taking over the Dorrington creamery in December 1935 the company began to send milk to Marylebone in churns. In June 1936 it purchased ten 6-wheel tanks built by the GWR at Swindon and shortly afterwards began to work them to Marylebone. A Great Western locomotive collected the tanks at Dorrington and took them north to Shrewsbury where they were held for a time in carriage sidings at Abbey Foregate, giving the working another of its names, the 'Abbey Foregate milk'. 
   

Taken in: UK / England / Condover / Dorrington (show map)

Taken on: November 24, 2019

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