LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Trent Valley Lineside - Newbold on Avon: lnwr_nupa1160

LMS 6P 4-6-0 Royal Scot class No 6130 'The West Yorkshire Regiment' is seen picking up water whilst at the head of a down express in August 1937. The locomotive is now in its final form as a parallel boilered Scot having acquired the distinctive angled-top smoke deflectors and Stanier's larger curved top tender. The deflectors were required because the smokebox, it was the largest diameter smokebox ever fitted to a British locomotive, would in certain conditions cause the the smoke to obscure the driver's view. Stanier's 5000 gallon tender provide greater coal and water capacity than the original Fowler 3500 gallon tender.

The tenders provided for the Royal Scots were built as part of the order for Stanier's Jubilee class with the Royal Scots exchanging their 3500 gallon tenders with the Jubilee's 5000 gallon tenders. See image 'lnwr_gyp1158' for a view of one of the Royal Scots in original form and image 'lnwr_cath1133' for a Jubilee with the Fowler tender transferred from a Royal Scot. Built by the North British Locomotive Company in November 1927 No 6130 was rebuilt with a tapered boiler post-Second World War and remained in service until December 1962 when it was withdrawn from Holbeck shed in Leeds to be scrapped in October 1963 at Crewe works.

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