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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 Station Pre-grouping Locomotives: lnwrrm828
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LNWR 2-8-0 E class No 2563 is seen passing under the GC
Birdcage bridge whilst at the head of an up goods train circa 1919-23. The
class were introduced in 1904 and were extinct by 1928 having been rebuilt or
withdrawn. Initially 26 were rebuilt by George Whale from Class B 4-cylinder
compounds with the simple addition of a leading pony truck to reduce excessive
front overhang between 1904-1908. The only alteration was to wheelbase and
weight, but when the letter classification system was introduced in 1911, this
took them into a different class. From 1917, Charles Bowen Cooke started to
rebuild the remaining twenty-four Class Es into LNWR Class G1 0-8-0s with
simple expansion engines. Twelve had been so treated by the grouping of 1923,
and a further two were treated in January and February of that year. Of the
remaining ten Class Es, the LMS allocated them as No 9600 to No 9609. A further
four were rebuilt to Class G1 in 1923-4 (including No 2563), while the
remaining six engines were withdrawn still as Class Es in 1927 to 1928, two of
them never receiving their allocated LMS number. None are preserved.
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