LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Tamworth Station: lnwr_tam3640

An unidentifiable LMS 'Royal Scot' class locomotive fitted with an experimental form of smoke deflectors heads an up express at Tamworth. It wasn't until late 1931, after several bizarre forms of smoke deflectors were tried on various locomotives to stop drifting smoke obscuring the crew's forward vision, that the straight sided smoke deflectors were added. These were later replaced by deflectors with angled top which had proved more effective as well as visually more attractive. Their reign as the LMS' premier locomotive was short lived as when Stanier took up post the class were from 1933 onwards taken off the top-link expresses, being superseded by the LMS Princess Royal Class and later the LMS Princess Coronation Class Pacifics.

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