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

Aston Shed: lnwra11

LMS 3F 0-6-0T No 16448 is seen standing on one of the shed's roads adjacent to the coal stack on 24th September 1932. Built as LMS No 16448 by the Hunslett Engineering Company in May 1928, it was renumbered as No 7565 in 1934 and then again by British Railways in 1948 as No 47565 remaining in service until March 1966 when it was retired from 5B Crewe South shed. This was yet another LMS standard design based upon a Midland Railway design, Fowler's rebuilds of SW Johnson's 2441 class. They have subsequently gained the nickname 'Jinty' for reasons unknown. This nickname is often refuted as being a genuine railway description being seen by former enginemen as a name more relevant to the heritage railway scene than working railways. A total of four hundred and twenty-two 'Jinties' were built between 1924 and 1930 being principally built by the private firms of WG Bagnall, William Beardmore and Company, Hunslet Engine Company, North British Locomotive Company and the Vulcan Foundry with the LMS' ex-L&YR Horwich works building the final fifteen, No 7667 to No 7681.

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