LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Tamworth Station: lnwr_tam3649

An unidentified LMS 4-6-0 'Royal Scot' class locomotive has injectors on when working an up express service south of Tamworth. Careful examination of the photograph would indicate that the locomotive has experienced some steaming problems as the top of the smokebox door appears to have its paint burnt off. Such was the lack of top drawer locomotive power, they were ordered and introduced without testing. It has been claimed that the boiler owed much to the MR 0-10-0 Lickey Banker 'Big Bertha' but whether or not this is true is unknown to the author. After the initial fifty locomotives supplied by the North British Locomotive Company, a further twenty were built by Derby Works. They were initially named after regiments of the British Army, and after historical LNWR locomotives. Those with LNWR names were renamed in 1935 and 1936 with more names of regiments.

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