LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Tamworth Station: lnwr_tam1244

LNWR 4-6-0 Experiment class No 2627 'President Lincoln' is seen at the head of the 10 05 am Euston to Perth express as it passes a line of Tamworth Colliery wagons circa 1909. The nearest wagon on the left has a timber buffer - known as a dumb buffer because it was solid - whilst all the rest have sprung metal buffers. As the locomotive was built in January 1909 the locomotive was only recently shopped from Crewe works when seen in this photograph. Later renumbered by the LMS as No 5510 it remained in service until May 1935 when it withdrawn from service to be scrapped at Crewe works.

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