LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Rugby to Leamington
LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth
LMS Route: Rugby to Leicester
LMS Route: Rugby to Market Harborough

Rugby Shed: lnwrrm960

Rebuilt ex-LNWR 4-6-0 Claughton class No 5962 takes on water before its moves forward to the turntable circa 1932. Number 5962 was built as LNWR No 194 at Crewe works to order 5505 in January 1920 and was one of a number of Claughton's rebuilt with the boiler eventually fitted to the Patriot class locomotives. The other significant failures such as the issue of cylinder efficiency were also addressed by the use of multiple rings in the cylinder, these however came to late as the decision to build the Patriot class by harnessing the smaller boiler used on the rebuilt Claughtons with the chassis of the Royal Scot had been made. Number 5962 received it LMS running number in February 1927 and was withdrawn from service in December 1935 for scrapping at Crewe works.

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