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LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Kings Norton LMS period: mrknlms215

Ex-MR 0-6-0 4F No 4040, just a few months after being outshopped new, pauses during its duties in the goods yard

Ex-MR 0-6-0 4F No 4040, just a few months after being outshopped new, pauses during its duties in the goods yard. Note the ex-MR practice adopted in the early days of the LMS of placing the number on the tender and "LMS" on the cabside. 19th April 1925

Number 4040 was built by Derby Works in January 1925 and remained in service until withdrawn from Kirkby-in-Ashfield shed in November 1964 to be scrapped by Arnott & Young of Parkgate and Rawmarsh in March 1965 .

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