Birmingham New Street Station

LNWR Locomotives: lnwrbns_pg446

LNWR 2-4-2T '5ft 6in' No 341 is seen light engine and blowing off steam whilst standing in New Street station's North Staffordshire bay. The lamps used to indicate the head code were located in sockets on the bufferbeam and the top of the smokebox. Prior to the 1st February 1903 LNWR locomotives had just three lamp sockets, one on top of the smokebox and one at each end of the bufferbeam as seen above. After this date a fourth socket was added to the centre of the bufferbeam when the LNWR, along with most other companies, adopted the Railway Clearing House head lamp codes. Robert Barlow writes 'It was built at Crewe works in March 1895 as No 341 and was later allocated No 6719 by the LMS before it was withdrawn from service in 1932'.

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