If there was ever a group of locos that failed to attract
our interest, relatively speaking, it was probably this lot. Many examples were
still creaking and shuffling around during the early 60s. They simply appeared
to us as grubby and unkempt workhorses that had probably seen better days.
Making up four different classes, all with 0-6-0 wheel
arrangements, and classified as 3F and 4F, their Midland pedigree was
attributed to Johnson, Deeley and Fowler. They were introduced between 1885 and
1924 and those members built for the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway were
also taken into LMS stock eventually.
It looks like I didn’t bother trying to photograph any of
them, myself. Luckily, John Dyer was not so short-sighted and he found working
examples in a number of locations, including No. 43240 at Carlisle Kingmoor in
1960, No. 43954 at Westhouses in 1962, No. 44081 at Carlisle in 1960, No. 44545
at Buxton in 1962 and No. 44595 at Hope and Pen-y-fford in 1962.
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