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Ex-LMS 4-4-0 4P No 40928 stands light engine on the centre road between platforms 9 and 10 at New Street station

Ex-LMS 4-4-0 4P No 40928 stands light engine on the centre road between platforms 9 and 10 at New Street station. Built as LMS No 928 in June 1927 by the Vulcan Foundry, this Compound locomotive was to gain its British Railways number in December 1949 which it carried until March 1958 when it was withdrawn from 21A Saltley shed. One hundred and ninety-five engines were built by the LMS, adding to the forty-five Midland Railway 1000 Class locomotives, to which they were almost identical. The most obvious difference between the two was the driving wheel diameter, reduced from 7 ft 0 in on the Midland locomotives to 6 ft 9 in on the LMS version. They were given the power classification 4P. The LMS continued the Midland numbering from No 1045 to No 1199 and then started in the lower block of No 900 to No 939.

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