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Rugby Station Pre-grouping Locomotives: lnwrrm828

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

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 The class were introduced in 1904 and were extinct by 1928 having been rebuilt or withdrawn.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 A further four were rebuilt to Class G1 in 1923-4 (including No 2563), while the remaining six engines were withdrawn still as Class Es in 1927 to 1928, two of them never receiving their allocated LMS number.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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