LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Moseley Station: mrms851a

Close up of image 'mrms851' showing MR 0-4-4T a member of the 1252 class, No 1249 arriving at the head of a Birmingham suburban service. The Midland Railway 1252 Class was a class of 30 0-4-4T locomotives built by Neilson & Company in 1875-1876 to the design of Samuel W. Johnson. They were a development of the 6 Class and originally were numbered - 1262 to 1281 and 1252 to 1261. Under the 1907 renumbering scheme they became No 1236 to No 1265. For this class, the Midland used nominal 5ft 6½in (1,689 mm) diameter driving wheels, whereas in all later engines (starting with the 1532 Class) they used nominal 5ft 3in (1,600 mm) diameter wheels. They were given the power classification 1P. When the LMS was nationalised, on 1st January 1948, nine of the thirty locomotives remained and these were: Nos 1239, 1246, 1247, 1249, 1251, 1252, 1255, 1260 and 1261 remained. British Railways allocated the survivors numbers in the 58xxx series, though not all were renumbered before they were withdrawn the whole class being extinct by 1954.

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