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 Shed: lnwrrm773

LMS 4-6-0 'Stanier Black 5' No 4813 is seen coming off shed having been fully coaled and watered. Built at Derby works in October 1944 No 4813 remained in service until it was withdrawn from Stoke-on-Trent shed in September 1966 to be scrapped by J Cashmore of Great Bridge in December of the same year. The LMS had underestimated the number of the class they would require consequently the block of numbers set aside for Stanier's mixed traffic Class 5's, 5000 to 5499, were not being sufficient. The LMS then allocated a further block of two hundred numbers, 4800 to 4999, but again they ran out of numbers so they started numbering below 4800. Eventually the eight hundred and forty-two examples of the class would be built, the last few being built under the auspices of British Railways and they were eventually numbered by British Railways from No 44658 to No 45499.

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