These heavy freight LNER Class 04 locos were first introduced in 1911. There were various subsequent rebuilds and modifications. A substantial number of surviving engines was still listed in my 1962 abc. They could be found at Bidston sheds in the 50s and 60s, having arrived on freight trains using the former GC mid-Wirral lines to Birkenhead docks. John Dyer photographed the following examples there between August 1959 and May 1962 – Nos 63575/713/9/743/862. Bidston sheds closed in February 1963 and its allocation went to Birkenhead Mollington Street. No. 63601 is preserved as part of the National Collection, one of only two ex-GCR locomotives to survive. 63601 is based at the modern-day GCR at Loughborough.
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