LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Birmingham - Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Harborne

Monument Lane Shed: lnwrmlsh2362

LNWR 2-4-0 Samson Class No 2157 'Unicorn' poses with its crew and other members of staff in front of the shed. A total of 90 locomotives were built under Ramsbottom and Webb from 1863 to 1879 approximately in parallel with the Newton Class of locomotives. The LNWR Society state that 'They were designed from the outset to fulfill secondary duties and were reputedly the first passenger engines with coupled wheels. The class has the usual Ramsbottom features: the fancy chimney top, safety valves, horizontal smoke box door, slotted splashers, no brakes on the engine and no cab. The coupling rods are of the early Ramsbottom type, with forked ends having wedge adjustment and cottered fastenings. A total of eighty members of the class were replaced by 'Small Jumbos' in 1890s, the others continuing in use for a further twenty years by the LNWR's engineers department.'

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