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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington
Kenilworth Junction: lnwrkj174a
Close up of image 'lnwrkj174' showing ex-LNWR 3P 4-4-0
'Precursor class' No 25306 'Lang Meg' with the signalman standing by the track
ready to hand over the train staff. Introduced by George Whale in 1904 some 130
examples were built by Crewe works up to 1907, their introduction allowed Whale
to phase out his predecessor Francis Webb's unreliable compound locomotives.
When first built they were fitted with saturated boilers though some were later
fitted with superheated boilers which were much more efficient and became the
default boiler configuration. In essence they were a larger version of Webb's
2-4-0 'Improved' Precedent class known to railwaymen as 'Jumbos' the last of
which were built in 1901.
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