LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham
Kings Norton LMS period: mrknlms227
The crew of ex-MR 2P 4-4-0 No 429 pose for the camera whilst
standing at the head of a local passenger train. The LMS followed MR livery
practice in the early days of grouping by displaying the crest on the cabside
with the running number on the tender. This was intended to assist the
'bobbies' in the signal box to confirm the locomotive's number at night and in
poor weather. However this practice ceased because the locomotive would take
longer going through the works when under repair than its tender. February
1925.
Number 429 was built by Sharp Stewart to a MR class 483
design in February 1893 and lasted just long enough to be included on BR
register being withdrawn from Nottingham shed in June 1950 for scrapping.
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