LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Brandon and Wolston: lnwrbw536

An unidentified LMS 7P 4-6-0 Rebuilt Jubilee class locomotive is seen passing opposite Brandon and Wolston signal cabin on an up express circa 1947. Note the obligatory fire buckets on the up platform. Both No 5735 and No 5736 were built at Crewe in November 1936 and were rebuilt with the same boiler as the rebuilt Royal Scots. Externally the most obvious difference to their rebuilt Royal Scot brethren was the Jubilees Stanier cab whilst the Scot retained its Fowler cab, a little strange considering that the Fowler Patriot rebuilds received a new Stanier cab. No 5735 was withdrawn in October 1964 whilst No 5736 was withdrawn the month before from Annesley and Kingmoor Carlisle respectively. Pete Kibble writes 'The locomotive cannot be one of the two rebuilt Jubilee class locomotives, Phoenix or Comet, or indeed any of the rebuilt Patriots, as only the Scots had the small footsteps on the front of the inside cylinder cover. Also, the gap between the top of the cover and the bottom of the smokebox was less on the Scots than it was on the other two classes.

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