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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: lnwrrm4364
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Ex-LNWR 0-6-0ST Crewe Special Tank 'Carriage Department No
1' (originally numbered 3) is seen standing outside Rugby shed in the 1950s.
Rugby had an erecting shop built to relieve maintenance pressure on Crewe
works. Engines that were overhauled at Rugby included Ramsbottom's Special
Tanks allocated to Wolverton Carriage works. The Crewe Special Tanks were a
saddle tank version of the LNWR DX Goods class and a total of two hundred and
seventy eight locomotives were built from 1870 onwards, of which five survived
to be inherited by British Railways in 1948. Ramsbottom built the first twenty
after which Mr. Webb added a further 235, fitting his own standard features in
the same way as the DX conversions. The first Special
Tanks had frames of iron but when Webb introduced steel frames they were
lighter yet stronger, so they could be less deep. The five BR survivors went in
to departmental stock, four (numbered 3, 6, 7 and 8) as shunters at Wolverton
railway works, and No 3323, a shunter at Crewe Works. They were also widely
used as station pilots and empty carriage stock workings. Most retained the
distinctive sloping Ramsbottom smokebox front until LMS days. Originally built
only with weather boards a few received cabs by the 1890s and many more by
1912-16.
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