LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway

Bournville Shed: mrb22

Ex-LTSR 2P 4-4-2T No 2106 photographed inside the roundhouse at Bournville on Saturday 15th June 1935. Built in June 1903 by the North British Locomotive Company for the LTSR, it entered service as their No 65 "Victoria". It was one of eighteen engines known as the 51 class, all of which carried names. The Midland Railway took over the LTSR in 1912 and renumbered its engines. No 65 became their No 2172. ,The LMSR further renumbered the former LTSR 51 class engines in 1927/1928. No 2172 then became No 2106. It was transferred to the Birmingham area in the 1930s, along with many others of its class, as a temporary replacement for the troubled 0-6-4Ts, all the transferred engines retaining their Westinghouse brakes. No 2106 is showing its new 21B shed plate in the photograph, as is the 1F 0-6-0T stabled next to it. Prior to 1935 Bournville was a sub-shed of Saltley and its engines were from the Saltley allocation. In May 1949 No 2106 became British Railways No 41923, by which time it was back on the former LTSR section. However, it was withdrawn in November 1949 from Plaistow shed and broken up in December at Derby.

John Dews

back