LMS Stanier Class 2 0-4-4T

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Stanier Class 2 0-4-4T was a class of 10 light passenger locomotives built in 1932. Ostensibly designed under new Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) William Stanier, they were in fact the last new design of the Midland Railway's school of engineering.
==Overview==
The Midland Railway had a large number of 1P 0-4-4T and this was a larger version of the larger wheeled design, classified 2P. The ten built were numbered 6400–6409 by the LMS and renumbered 1900–1909 shortly before nationalisation, freeing the numbers for new LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0s. British Railways adding 40000 to their numbers making them 41900–41909. Although the last new Midland-style design, as subsequent Stanier engines incorporated much Great Western Railway practice, they were not the last MR-designed locomotives built with some 4Fs appearing as late as 1940.
The class was originally built with stovepipe chimneys, apparently due to an oversight by Stanier due to the design for future LMS locomotive chimneys not being finalised. All were later fitted with Stanier chimneys.
Two of the locomotives were fitted with vacuum control gear in 1934 for working the motor trains on the St Alban's branch, and allocated to Watford Junction shed. The remainder were fitted in the BR period and used at a number of different sheds including Warwick and Longsight. (Motor trains was the terminology used by the LMS although they later became popularly referred to as push-pull trains. The suitably modified stock was marked as pull-push).
==Details==
LMS 1932/3 No.	LMS 1946 No.	BR No.	Date built 	Date motor gear fitted	Withdrawn
6400 	1900 	41900 	December 1932	September 1950 	March 1962
6401 	1901 	41901 	December 1932	February 1951 	November 1959
6402 	1902 	41902 	December 1932	September 1950 	November 1959
6403 	1903 	41903 	December 1932	September 1950 	November 1959
6404 	1904 	41904 	December 1932	September 1950 	November 1959
6405 	1905 	41905 	December 1932	January 1951 	November 1959
6406 	1906 	41906 	December 1932	March 1957 	November 1959
6407 	1907 	41907 	December 1932	March 1951 	November 1959
6408 	1908 	41908 	December 1932	July 1934 	November 1959
6409 	1909 	41909 	January 1933 	March 1934 	November 1959
==Withdrawal==
All were withdrawn in 1959 except 41900, which was withdrawn in 1962. None were preserved.
==External links==
*Class 2P-C Details at Rail UK
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