LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth
Tamworth Station: lnwr_tam2366
Ex-LMS 4-6-0 6P Rebuilt Royal Scot No 6138 'The London Irish
Rifleman' on the up Liverpool express service on 17th May 1948. Built by North
British Locomotive Company of Glasgow in October 1927, the locomotive was later
rebuilt and is seen above with the legend 'British Railways' on its tender but
not its new number. Numbered by British Railways as No 46138 the locomotive was
to retain the number until it was withdrawn in February 1963 from 12B Upperby
shed in Carlisle.
This photograph is displayed courtesy of the HMRS
(Historical Model Railway Society) and copies can be ordered directly from them
using the link HERE, quoting reference AES916
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