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SO7483 : 'Defiance'
Newly overhauled Type 50 diesel locomotive 50049 'Defiance' arrives at Highley with the 9.45 from Kidderminster on the first day of the 'Open House Weekend'.
Alongside is GWR Pannier 1501 between turns on the Kidderminster to Highley local services.
In the background is The Engine House.
 
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RSH 7485/1948 ‘Agecroft No.2’
Agecroft No.2 was one of three standard outside cylinder locomotives ordered by the Salford Corporation Electricity Department for use at Agecroft Power Station near Manchester where they shunted coal wagons from the power station to the coal tipplers.
Works no 7485 was delivered in a goods train to Agecroft BR shed.
Painted green and black lining edged with red on the outside and yellow on the inside, she was put into store nearby and did not commence work until December 1950.
 
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(LMS 16576, LMS 7493 & BR 47493)
47493 was built in 1927 by Vulcan Foundry ltd, at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, with works number 4195. Emerging as LMS No. 16576, and one of the relatively few of the class to be fitted with a screw reverser rather than the more usual lever reverser.
The first allocation was to Bromley-By-Bow (later renamed Devons Road) in London, where it joined several other members of the class for working suburban passenger and trip freight trains over the former North London Railway, services from Broad Street to Poplar, and to Potter’s Bar on the former Great Northern main line. It was renumbered before the Second World War to 7493 and again in April 1948 to 47493.
 
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NGC 7496 (MIRI Image - Annotated)
At the centre of NGC 7496, a barred spiral galaxy, is an active galactic nucleus (AGN). An AGN is a supermassive black hole that is emitting jets and winds. The AGN glows brightly at the centre of this Webb image. Additionally, Webb’s extreme sensitivity also picks up various background galaxies, far distant from NGC 7496, which appear green or red in some instances.

NGC 7496 lies over 24 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Grus.
 
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