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Ex-LMS 4P 4-4-0 Compound No 40936 is seen circa 1951 with a very unusual tender coupled behind it, the experimental Stanier curved-top tender. This tender was the precursor to the standard 4000 gallon tank on the longer 7'-6"+7'-6" wheelbase having a 3500 gallon capacity and 6'-6"+6'-6" wheelbase. Number 40936 was built as No 936 at Derby works in September 1932 and lasted in service until it was withdrawn in January 1961 from Monument Lane shed, as the last of its class, ten years after this photograph was taken. It was scrapped by J Cashmore of Great Bridge in September 1961. 'John H-T' wrote on http://www.railwayforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=17 "It is possible that 40936 may have run with this tender since the 1930's. There is a photo of 936 with this tender in LMS crimson lake livery, which would date the photo pre 1940, in Locomotives of British Railways by Casserly and Asher. The tender was transfered to 40933 in BR days. Casserley and Asher state that it was the only tender of this type to be attached to a compound Incidently I am fairly sure that 41168 was the last compound, withdrawn in July 1961 and not cut up until 1962. I believe that a group led by Pete Beat tried to preserve it". Whilst a writer using the pseudenham '50002' on http://www.national-preservation.com/Natpres/forum states "The 1962 RCTS book on the Midland Compounds says that this tender was originally standard Fowler 3500 gallon tender No 3677. It was originally attached to a 4F 0-6-0 but was rebuilt with high curved sides in May 1933 and attached to compound No 936. It stayed with No 936 until 1954 when it was exchanged for the orthodox Fowler tender from No 40933. What happened to the high sided tender after that is not stated. Perhaps it remained with No 40933 until that loco was withdrawn in 1958?"
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