LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Shed: lnwrns3835

Ex-LMS 3P 2-6-2T No 40010 stands in steam on Nuneaton shed waiting for its next turn on 26th June 1960. Built in May 1930 as LMS No 10, it wasn't until September 1948 before it was renumbered, by British Railways, as seen above, the number which it carried until July 1961 when it was withdrawn from 1A Willesden shed. A total of seventy of these Fowler designed locomotives were built, all at Derby works, before Stanier produced his tapered boilered version. Unlike Fowlers larger 2-6-4T design, they were never considered particularly successful as they reverted to standard Midland practice which by 1930 was very much out of date. The restricted steam passages in the cylinders and the use of short lap instead of the long lap adopted with the 2-6-4T design condemned the design from the outset.

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