LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Shed: lnwrns1714

Ex-LNWR 2P 4-6-0 No 25509 'Chillington' is seen standing outside of Nuneaton shed ready for its turn of duty. Built as LNWR No 2626 by Crewe works in February 1909 it was renumbered by the LMS as No 5509 in February 1927 and in the early 1930s as No 25509 to make way for Fowler's new Patriot class before being withdrawn in May 1935 for scrapping at Crewe works. Built from 1905, a total class of 105 two-cylinder simple 4-6-0’s were built by George Whale. Unlike the Webb 'Experiments' built some 25 years earlier there was nothing experimental about the class, which was a 4-6-0 development of the Whale “Precursors”. The first engine simply inherited the name of the first Webb 'Experiment' when the engine bearing that name was scrapped.

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