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

Aston Shed: lnwra17

LMS 5XP 4-6-0 Patriot class No 5539 'EC Trench' stands on Aston's approach roads on 4th April 1936. When seen above, No 5539 was carrying on its smokebox door Aston Shed's code of '3D'. Built at Crewe in July 1933 No 5539 was nominally a rebuilt Claughton class locomotive and remained in service until October 1961 when it was withdrawn from Newton Heath shed. The Patriot class comprised fifty-two express passenger steam locomotives with the first locomotive of the class being built in 1930 and the last in 1934. The class utilised the chassis of the then new Royal Scot class combined with the boiler from the Large Boilered Claughtons resulting in them looking like a smaller Royal Scot class locomotive and earning them the nickname Baby Scots. All of the Patriot class locomotives were withdrawn from service by 1965.

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