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LNWR 2-4-0 'Samson Class' No 2155 'Liver' stands at the West end of the shed with St Vincent Street 'skew' bridge in the background. In the late 1870s, half a dozen of the then new 'Samson' class 2-4-0s were based at Monument Lane shed. The locomotive was one of a class of ninety 2-4-0 engines with 6ft 0in driving wheels built for secondary duties under the auspices of Ramsbottom and Webb from 1863 to 1879. The class were reputedly the first passenger engines with coupled wheels. It has the usual Ramsbottom features: the fancy chimney, safety valves, horizontal smoke box door, slotted splashers, no brakes on the engine and no cab. The coupling rods are of the early Ramsbottom type, with forked ends having wedge adjustment and cottered fastenings. Eighty locomotives of the class were replaced by 'Small Jumbos' 2-4-0 Locomotive Class in 1890’s, the others continuing for twenty years for use by the LNWR's Engineer Department. (Information courtesy of the LNWR Society). Photograph from the David Ratcliff Collection
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