LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Birmingham - Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Harborne

Monument Lane Shed: lnwrmlsh3071

Another view of ex-LMS 4-4-0 4P 'Compound' No 41168 being stored at Monument Lane shed. One hundred and ninety five locomotives were built by the LMS, adding to the forty-five of the Midland Railway 1000 Class, to which they were almost identical. The most obvious difference being they were left hand driven and the driving wheel diameter, which was reduced from 7 foot 0 inches on the Midland locomotive to 6 foot 9 inches on the LMS version. The class were given the power classification 4P whilst the LMS continued the Midland numbering sequence from No 1045 to No 1199 and then when this was full, they started numbering the class from No 900 to No 939. After the railways were nationalised in 1948, British Railways added 40000 to their numbers so they were numbered No 40900 to No 40939 and No 41045 to No 41199 respectively. None of the LMS locomotives survived to enter preservation, although the first of the Midland Class locomotives, No 1000 has.

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