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London North Western
Railway:
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Railway:
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Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station - BR Locomotives: lnwrcov250
![Ex-LMS Stanier 2P 0-4-4T No 41902 is seen standing at Platform 1 on a local Nuneaton to Leamington Push-Pull passenger service](lnwr/coventry/locomotives/lnwrcov250.jpg) |
Ex-LMS Stanier 2P 0-4-4T No 41902 is seen standing at Platform 1
on a local Nuneaton to Leamington Push-Pull passenger service. The LMS' 0-4-4T
was a class of 10 light passenger locomotives built in 1932 and ostensibly
designed under their new Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) William - later Sir
William - Stanier. However they were in fact the last new design of the Midland
Railway's school of engineering based at Derby. The Midland Railway had a large
number of 1P 0-4-4T and this was a larger version of the larger wheeled design,
classified 2P. The ten built were numbered 6400-9 by the LMS and renumbered
1900-9 shortly before nationalisation allowing Ivatt's new 2-6-0 tender
locomotives to take the original numbers. British Railways adding 40000 to
their numbers making them No 41900 to No 41909. Although the last new
Midland-style design, they were not the last MR-designed locomotives built with
some 4Fs appearing as late as 1940. The class was originally built with
stovepipe chimneys, apparently due to an oversight by Stanier due to the design
for future LMS locomotive chimneys not being finalised. All were later fitted
with Stanier chimneys. The locomotives were fitted with vacuum control gear for
working motor trains. (Motor trains was the terminology used by the LMS
although they later became popularly referred to as push-pull trains. The
suitably modified stock was marked as pull-push).
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