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LMS Stanier 8F 48773

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48773 is an '''LMS Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0 ''' heavy freight locomotive. A total of 852 were built between 1935 and 1946 (not all to LMS order). As well as being used on the LMS, the Stanier 8F was adopted as the Country’s Country's standard WW2 freight locomotive. The War Department had more than 200 built to order and requisitioned more than 50 others, before the cheaper WD Austerity 2-8-0 was introduced in 1943.  Stanier 8Fs saw occasional use on [[Alveley Colliery]] coal trains during the last days of the Severn Valley Branch. Classmate 48531, then based at Wolverhampton's Oxley MPD, was photographed working a southbound coal train at Bewdley on 29 June 1966<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Vanns (2017)]] p. 55.</ref>.
==48773 in service==
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