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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Birmingham -
Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to
Harborne
Monument Lane Station: lnwrml2228
Ex-LMS 3P 2-6-2T No M49 is seen leaving Monument Lane station
with a Wolverhampton to New Street local passenger service on 21st May 1948.
Following nationalisation of the big four railways - the GWR, LMS, LNER and
Southern railways - there was an obvious duplication of numbers between the
four companies. The initial solution was to prefix the number with a letter and
in the case of the LMS this was the letter 'M' to indicate that the locomotive
was a locomotive of the London Midland Region of British Railways. The final
solution adopted was for the GWR to retain its series of numbers whilst the
LMS, the LNER and Southern railway locomotives had their numbers increased by:
LMS - 40,000, LNER - 60,000 and Southern - 30,000 which allowed British
Railways to use numbers commencing at 70,000. This provided a simple method to
differentiate between locomotives of each company. In the instance seen above,
LMS No 49 became British Railways No 40049.
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