LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare Route

SMJ Locomotives: smjsa33

Locomotive crews are changing over as freshly shopped 0-6-0 No 2300 (ex-LBSCR and formerly SMJ No 2) stands resplendent in its new LMS livery. The LMS originally continued the Midland Railway practice of painting the locomotive number on the tender and the LMS initials on the cab sides as seen above. This practice did not last too many years because of the different times required to out shop a locomotive compared to a tender. Frequently a tender was available many weeks ahead of its locomotive so that by the 1930s fewer tenders were needed than locomotives. 8 April 1924 (ex-SMJ No 2)

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