Birmingham New Street Station - LNWR Locomotives: View of LNWR 0-6-0ST No 3135 standing on the up centre road at the head of coaching stock whilst on pilot duties

LMS Routes

London North Western Railway:

Rugby to Wolverhampton
Rugby to Leamington
Rugby to Market Harborough
Nuneaton to Leamington
Coventry Loop Line
Leamington to Weedon
Trent Valley Line
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Birmingham New Street to Harborne
Birmingham-Soho-
Perry Barr-Birmingham

Midland Railway:

Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Evesham to Birmingham
Hampton in Arden to Whitacre
Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Rugby to Leicester
Water Orton to Walsall
Halesowen to Northfield

Stratford Midland Junction Railway

The Shakespeare Route

LNWR Locomotives: lnwrbns_pg472

View of LNWR 0-6-0ST No 3135 standing on the up centre road at the head of coaching stock whilst on pilot duties. This was John Ramsbottom's last design and only twenty were built before his successor FW Webb took over as Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME). The class, first built in 1870, was in essence a saddle Tank version of his ‘DX’ 0-6-0 goods engine although whilst it had the same cylinders and wheelbase it employed slightly smaller wheels and boiler. The smaller wheels being beneficial in providing greater tractive power an important consideration for a class designed to be used for shunting.