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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Birmingham -
Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to
Harborne
Monument Lane Shed: lnwrmlsh2233b
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Close up of image 'lnwrmlsh2233' showing one Webb's 2-4-2T
designs on the left and Whale's 4-4-0 'Precursor class locomotive on the right.
There were 160 2-4-2T locomotives used on secondary passenger services and
latterly on branch line duties all over the LNWR system. A large number were
also fitted for push-pull working. In 1948 when British Railways took ownership
of all LMS locomotives 43 were still in service, despite it being 25 years
since the demise of the LNWR, with one sold off for industrial service. The
4-4-0 locomotives were the second design to be known by this name. They were
introduced by George Whale in 1904 and 130 examples were built by Crewe works
up to 1907. Their introduction allowed Whale to phase out his Webb's unreliable
compounds. They were essentially a larger version of Webb's LNWR Improved
Precedent Class. When built their boilers were saturated (not super heated)
though some were later fitted with superheated boilers. A 4-4-2T tank engine
version of this locomotive known as Precursor Tank locomotives were built from
1906. The Precursors were later developed by Bowen-Cooke into the superheated
George the Fifth Class 4-4-0 in 1910. The main visual difference was that the
Precursors had separate splashers over each of the driving wheels while the
George the Fifth class had combined splashers that covered both pairs.
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