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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Brandon and Wolston: lnwrbw541

An unidentified LMS 4-6-0 rebuilt Royal Scot class locomotive is seen passing through the station at speed

An unidentified LMS 4-6-0 rebuilt Royal Scot class locomotive is seen passing through the station at speed. This photograph helps to show the station's layout the main station building being on the right on the up platform and on the left, connected by the steel footbridge, the down platform with its simple passenger waiting room with the signal box at the end of the platform. The Royal Scots were a significant class of passenger express engines, notionally designed by Sir Henry Fowler the second CME of the LMS, and built by the LMS in the late 1920s. Originally having parallel boilers, all members of the class were later rebuilt with tapered type 2A boilers, making them in effect two classes. Seventy members of the class were rebuilt by the LMS and its successor British Railways by the replacement of their life expired parallel boilers with the type 2A boiler over the period from 1943 to 1955. They were the second design to use the LMS type 2 and 2A boilered 4-6-0 locomotives, after the rebuild of British Legion in 1935 using the type 2 boiler and the two LMS rebuilt Jubilee Class locomotives, No 5736 'Phoenix' in April 1942 and No 5735 'Comet' a month later. The LMS gave them the power classification 6P which was later revised under British Railways management to 7P.

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