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

Aston Shed: lnwra20

LMS 4P 2-6-4T No 2611 is seen with safety valves lifting alongside the Ash Plant and in front of the shed in 1938. Behind the Stanier locomotive stands LMS 0-6-0T 'Jinty' No 7366. Stanier's two-cylinder tank engine was barely a year old when the photograph was taken having been built by the North British Locomotive Company in January 1937. It remained in service for thirty years being withdrawn in May 1967 from Lostock Hall shed. This design was a two-cylinder derivative of Stanier's three-cylinder version of Fowler's two-cylinder 2-6-4T design, the three-cylinder version being required for use on the Tilbury line which required lighter hammer blows. After the thirty-seven three-cylinder In total two hundred and six locomotives were built between 1935 and 1943. The first withdrawal was in 1960, with the last in 1967. None has been preserved (although the original three-Cylinder 2-6-4T version, No 2500, is preserved at the National Railway Museum).

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