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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: Rugby to
Leamington LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth LMS Route: Rugby to
Leicester LMS Route: Rugby to Market Harborough
Rugby Shed: lnwrrm2615
Ex-LNWR 'G2a' 0-8-0 No 48927 with wreath on smokebox to mark
the closure of Rugby Erecting Workshop in Spring 1959. The locomotive is
standing on one of the three roads which ran into the Erecting Workshop. Ray
Sharratt writes, 'the Super D was the very last locomotive to have an
overhaul in Rugby's Erecting Workshop.' Built by Crewe works as a Class 'B'
locomotive in January 1903, No 48927 was initially numbered by the LNWR as No
1226, then by the LMS as No 8927 in January 1928 before British Railways
renumbered by adding 40,000 to its LMS number in January 1950. In parallel the
locomotive was rebuilt a Class G1 in March 1926 and then again as a Class G2a
in September 1947 in which form it ran until January 1960 when it was withdrawn
from 8A Edge Hill shed. In January 1928, No 48927 had been fitted with a
belpaire boiler.
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