LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington (LNWR)

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Birmingham (MR)

Nuneaton Shed: lnwrnsh360

Built to an LMS design but by BR Ivatt Class 4 Mogul No 43025 was stable mate to classmates Nos 43024 and 43025. The class were all fitted with the characteristic high running plate that led to their nickname "doodlebug", a reference to the small pilotless V1's of World War II.

The design had been heavily influenced by US practice seen as a result of the large number of US built locomotives used or stored in the UK prior to D Day. The high running board was to provide easy access to the mechanical parts of the locomotive whilst other elements of the design, self-cleaning smokebox and rocking grate were designed to reduce the labour intensive elements of preparing and disposing of locomotives each day.

No 43025 was built at Horwich Works in January 1948 and lasted only 18 years in service being withdrawn from Workington shed in September 1965 and scrapped in January 1966 by the Motherwell Machinery & Scrap Co at their Inshaw Works. C1957

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