LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Kings Norton Locomotives: mrknlms227

Ex-MR 2P 4-4-0 No 429 stands at Kings Norton station's original up platform during the rebuilding of the station in February 1925. The LMS followed MR livery practice in the early days of grouping by displaying the crest on the cabside with the running number on the tender. This was intended to assist the 'bobbies' in the signal box to confirm the locomotive's number at night and in poor weather. However this practice ceased because the locomotive would take longer going through the works when under repair than its tender. Built by Sharp Stewart to a MR class 483 design in February 1893 No 429 remained in service just long enough to be included on British Railway's register being withdrawn from Nottingham shed in June 1950 for scrapping.

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