LMS Route: Grand Junction Railway
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
LMS Route: Birmingham-Soho-Perry Barr-Birmingham

Aston Shed: lnwra10

LMS 4P 2-6-4T No 2400 is seen stabled on one of the shed's siding adjacent to the Stechford line on 2nd July 1938. Built at Derby in September 1933 No 2400 continued in service until being withdrawn from Stafford shed in January 1965. The London Midland and Scottish Railway built one hundred and twenty five of this class of steam locomotive which was designed by Henry Fowler. The LMS numbered them No 2300 to No 2424 whilst British Railways adding 40000 to their LMS numbers to make them No 42300 to 42424. Classified by the LMS as 4P, British Railways classified them as 4MT. They became the basis for a family of 800 locomotives built by the LMS and British Railways. Following Fowler's design, Stanier, Fairburn and Riddles designed derivatives so that ultimately the family consisted of some four hundred and ninety-eight built by the LMS and three hundred and two by British Railways.

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