LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Rugby to Leamington
LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth
LMS Route: Rugby to Leicester
LMS Route: Rugby to Market Harborough

Rugby Shed: lnwrrm1055

LMS Stanier Mogul 2-6-0 No 13255 stands on the approach road to the sheds waiting to be serviced on 18th February 1934. Built at Crewe works December 1933 it was soon renumbered by the LMS as No 2955 remaining in service until it was withdrawn in April 1966 from 9F Heaton Mersey shed to be scrapped by Birds of Long Marston in July 1966. Although the class were all built at Crewe, they were designed at Horwich and were a development of the Horwich Mogul, the LMS Hughes 'Crab' 2-6-0. They were built with the addition of several features brought over from the Great Western Railway by the then newly-arrived Chief Mechanical Engineer William Stanier, most notably the taper boiler. Due to a higher boiler pressure than the Horwich 'Crabs' the cylinders were 3" smaller in diameter and so the cylinders were able to be mounted horizontally: the only Stanier design to do so. Like the 'Crabs' they were connected to a Fowler tender that was narrower than the locomotive. When built the first ten locomotives had no water pick-up gear fitted to their tenders. They were initially numbered 13245-84 (following on from the running numbers given to the 'Crabs'), but as standard locomotives, in the LMS 1933 renumbering scheme they were renumbered 2945-84 in 1934 (the 'Crabs' becoming 2700-2944). British Railways added 40000 to their numbers so they became 42945-84. They were always painted black, and this was lined out except during the austere periods of the 1940s and towards the end of steam.

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