Birmingham New Street Station: Ex-LMS 3P 2-6-2T No 40118 is seen shunting vans whilst on pilot duties at New Street circa 1957

LMS Routes

London North Western Railway:

Rugby to Wolverhampton
Rugby to Leamington
Rugby to Market Harborough
Nuneaton to Leamington
Coventry Loop Line
Leamington to Weedon
Trent Valley Line
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Birmingham New Street to Harborne
Birmingham-Soho-
Perry Barr-Birmingham

Midland Railway:

Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Evesham to Birmingham
Hampton in Arden to Whitacre
Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Rugby to Leicester
Water Orton to Walsall
Halesowen to Northfield

Stratford Midland Junction Railway

The Shakespeare Route

Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_br4333

Ex-LMS 3P 2-6-2T No 40118 is seen shunting vans whilst on pilot duties at New Street circa 1957. At first glance the 3E Monument Lane allocated Stanier locomotive seems to be displaying Class A passenger headlamps, but the reality is that one has a white aspect and the other red, as it operates as station pilot on the LNWR side of New Street station between Platforms 3 & 4. Built as LMS No 118 by Derby works in August 1935, it was renumbered as No 40118 by BR in February 1949 which it carried until August 1961 when it was withdrawn from 24L Carnforth shed.

Photograph courtesy of John Turner