LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Shed: lnwrns1715

An unidentified ex-LNWR 4-6-0 19 inch Express Goods class locomotive is seen standing on Nuneaton shed's manually operated 50 foot turntable. The LNWR 19 inch Express Goods Class, also known as the Experiment Goods Class were essentially a smaller wheeled version of the Whale's Experiment Class and were an early attempt at a mixed traffic engine with Crewe building 170 engines between 1906 and 1909. The LNWR practice of reusing the numbers from withdrawn locomotives rather than allocating one block of numbers to one class meant identifying locomotives by their running number was haphazard to say the least. All of the locomotives built by the LNWR passed onto LMS ownership in 1923 with the LMS giving them a 4F power classification and renumbering them into the more logical series of 8700 to 8869. Withdrawals started in 1931 however British Railways acquired three Nos 8801, 8824 and 8834 in 1948, but all were withdrawn by 1950 before they could receive their allocated British Railways numbers of 48801, 48824 and 48834.

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