LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare Route

E&WJR and SMJ - Locomotives and Rolling Stock: smjsa34

Ex-LBSCR 0-6-0 Stroudley 'C1' class, now LMS No 2303, running wrong road in Stratford on Avon goods yard on 8th April 1924. The former SMJ locomotives were numbered by the LMS in the 23xx series to differentiate between the many locomotives bearing the same number across the many different constituent companies of the LMS. In total 123 independent railway companies were grouped together (hence the descriptions 'pre-grouping' and 'post-grouping') into four national companies, the London Midland Scottish Railway (LMSR), The London North Easter Railway (LNER), the Southern Railway (SR) and the Great Western Railway (GWR).

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