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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Birmingham -
Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to
Harborne
Monument Lane Station: lnwrml2193a
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Close up showing Monument Lane carriage sidings and shed with a
mixture of locomotives marshalling the stock. On the left is Britiah Railways
diesel 10800 in company with an unidentified ex-LMS 5MT 4-6-0 locomotive and an
unidentified ex-LMS 4P 2-6-4T locomotive. British Railways 10800 was built by
the North British Locomotive Company following an order in 1946 by the London,
Midland and Scottish Railway. However it did not appear until after the 1948
nationalisation of the railways. Designed by George Ivatt the locomotive was
intended as a possible replacement for steam locomotives on secondary and
branch lines. The single-cab layout (long bonnet forward) gave the driver a
poor view of the road ahead but it was no worse than in a steam locomotive so
it would have been considered acceptable at the time. Due to having been
ordered by the LMS before the creation of British Railways (BR), 10800 became
the first BR mixed-traffic Diesel-Electric locomotive when it was delivered in
1950. Operationally it was successful enough for BR to order a batch of 54 in
1955 although these, destined to be come BR Class 15 and BR Class 16, used the
improved YHXL engine.
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