LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Tamworth Station: lnwr_tam3128

Ex-LNWR 0-6-0ST Special Tank No 7379 is seen taking water at Tamworth Low Level circa 1931. Built by Crewe works in May 1878, No 7379 was later renumbered by the LMS as No 27379 which it carried until it was withdrawn from service in October 1936. Designed by John Ramsbottom, the class were a saddle tank version of his LNWR DX Goods design. A total of 278 locomotives were built from 1870 onwards, of which five survived to be inherited by British Railways in 1948. These five were in departmental stock: four being used as Carriage Department shunters at Wolverton Works and one locomotive being employed as a shunter at Crewe Works.

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