LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Rugby to Leamington
LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth
LMS Route: Rugby to Leicester
LMS Route: Rugby to Market Harborough

Rugby Station: lnwrrm3171

Ex-LMS 4MT 2-6-4T No 42400 is running wrong road at the head of a Class C parcels working. Seen in the background on the right above the second carriage is the roof of the carriage shed. The building on the left is on the site of the Midland Railway shed with the building now apparently being used for storage. Built at Derby in September 1933 No 2400 continued in service until being withdrawn from Stafford shed in January 1965. The London Midland and Scottish Railway built one hundred and twenty five of this class of steam locomotive which was designed by Henry Fowler. The LMS numbered them No 2300 to No 2424 whilst British Railways adding 40000 to their LMS numbers to make them No 42300 to 42424. Classified by the LMS as 4P, British Railways classified them as 4MT. They became the basis for a family of 800 locomotives built by the LMS and British Railways. Following Fowler's design, Stanier, Fairburn and Riddles designed derivatives so that ultimately the family consisted of some four hundred and ninety-eight built by the LMS and three hundred and two by British Railways.

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