LMS Route: Water Orton to Walsall

Penns Station: mrp1150

British Railways Standard Class 4 4-6-0 No 75022 is seen running tender first on a down freight on 5th September 1959. Built in December 1953 by Swindon works No 75022 remained in service until December 1965 when it was withdrawn from 85A Worcester shed. Introduced in 1951 a total some eighty locomotives were built with forty-five initially being allocated to the London Midland Region, twenty to the Western Region and fifteen to the Southern Region. The Southern locomotives were supplied with BR1B tenders, which weighed nearly fifty tons and carried 4,250 gallons of water and 7 tons of coal. This reduced their route availability to 7, the same as the Standard Class 5. They were designed for mixed traffic use on secondary routes where the otherwise ubiquitous BR standard class 5 and their predecessors, the Black Fives, would be too heavy. They were essentially a tender version of the standard 4 2-6-4T, with similar characteristics to the GWR Manor Class, though unlike the Manors they were built to the universal loading gauge. They used the same running gear as the tank engine (with the leading bogie from the Standard Class 5), and substantially the same firebox, smokebox and boiler, although the boiler barrel was increased in length by 9 inches. Design work was done at Brighton by RA Riddles, with help from Swindon, Derby and Doncaster and all were built at Swindon works.

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