LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Stockingford Station: mrs1891

An unidentified ex-Midland Railway 3F 0-6-0 locomotive is piloting an unknown locomotive at the head of a down coal train circa 1955. The Midland Railway's 3F class of locomotives served the MR, and later the LMS and BR systems, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Between 1875 and 1908 the Midland Railway, under the control of its locomotive superintendents Samuel W Johnson and Richard Deeley, ordered nine hundred and thirty-five goods tender engines of this type, both from the railway's own shops at Derby and various external suppliers. Although there were many, mostly small, variations between the different batches both as delivered and as successively rebuilt, all nine hundred and thirty-five can be regarded as a single series, one of the largest classes of engine on Britain's railways. The locomotives served as late as 1964, but none of them now survive.

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