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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: Rugby to
Leamington LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth LMS Route: Rugby to
Leicester LMS Route: Rugby to Market Harborough
Rugby Station: lnwrrm3907
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An unidentified ex-LMS 'Stanier Black Five' 4-6-0 locomotive
passes through Rugby at the head of an up express service with the sheds in the
background on the right. The 'Black Fives' were a mixed traffic locomotive, a
"do-anything go-anywhere" type, designed by Stanier, who had previously been
with the GWR. In his early LMS days, he designed his Stanier Mogul 2-6-0 in
which he experimented with the GWR school of thought on locomotive design. A
number of details in this design he would never use again realising the
superiority of details not used on the GWR. Stanier realised that there was a
need for larger locomotives. These were to be the LMS version of the GWR Hall
class but not a copy, as the Hall was too wide to run most places in Britain.
They shared similar cylinder arrangement (two outside), internal boiler design
and size and 6 foot driving wheel diameters. Introduced in 1934 and a total of
eight hundred and forty-two locomotives were built between then and 1951.
Members of the class survived to the last day of steam on British Railways in
1968, and eighteen are preserved.
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