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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

Ex-LNWR 0-6-0ST Crewe Special Tank Carriage Depart No 1 is seen standing outside Rugby shed in the 1950s

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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