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What operated LNWR 4ft 6in Tank Class from 1913 to 1914?
LNWR 4ft 6in Tank Class The LNWR 4 ft 6in Tank was a class of 220 passenger locomotives manufactured by the London and North Western Railway in their Crewe Works between 1879 and 1898 . The 4ft 6in in the title referred to the diameter of the driving wheels – although the stated dimension was for the wheel centres – the nominal diameter including the tyres was . The design was an extension of the earlier 2234 built from 1876 which became known as Chopper Tanks . Design . The design featured a boiler pressed to delivering saturated steam to two cylinders connected by Joy valve gear to the driving wheels . They were an extended version of the 2234 class 2-4-0T locomotives , sharing the same boiler and wheelbase . In 1905 five of the s were rebuilt as s , which may have led to the latter becoming known as Chopper Tanks . The twenty locomotives delivered in 1889–1890 were fitted with condensing apparatus from new . Service . They had been designed for working local passenger trains . From 1909 many locomotives of the class were fitted for Push-pull working , giving the nickname of Motor Tanks . Sales . Dublin , Wicklow and Wexford Railway . Six locomotives were sold to the Dublin , Wicklow and Wexford Railway in 1902 for £1500 each , converted from to and re-gauged to . They were numbered 59 to 64 and all were named after Irish Earls . All six were still in service when the DW&WR became the Dublin and South Eastern Railway in 1907 . They were generally used for suburban work and noted for used on the Harcourt to Bray line . Five were sold to the British Government in 1916 , regauged back to gauge ; two went to the Inland Waterways and Docks where they lasted until scrapped in 1919 . One went to the War Department site at Shoeburyness ; it was scrapped in the early 1920s . The other two went to the colliery at Cramlington until they scrapped in 1923 and 1929 . The locomotive remaining in Ireland , No . 64 , works number 2002 of 1877 , was at one point named Earl of Bessborough . It had been re-built at Crewe in 1914 receiving the works number 3605 . During the Irish Civil War it carried additional steel plating , carried the name Faugh a Ballagh ( Clear the way ) and was used to draw an armoured train . It passed to the Great Southern Railways in 1925 , and was withdrawn in 1936 . Wirral Railway . Four were sold to the Wirral Railway between 1913 and 1921 ; all passed to the London , Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 , and were renumbered 6758–6761 , after the block of LNWR 5ft 6in Tanks . Cardiff Railway . One was sold to the Cardiff Railway in 1914 ; it passed to the Great Western Railway in 1922 , but was withdrawn in May of that year . Decline . Withdrawals started in 1905 : 118 were scrapped in the years up to 1923 grouping , leaving 90 to be passed to the London , Midland and Scottish Railway . They were allocated power class 1P , and assigned the numbers 6515–6600 and 6758–6761 ; although only 37 survived long enough to receive them : withdrawals restarted in 1924 , and when the last was withdrawn in June 1936 , the class became extinct . None were preserved .