The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Class 2P 4-4-0 was a class of steam locomotive designed for light passenger work.
Overview
The class was introduced in 1928 and was a post-grouping development of the Midland Railway 483 Class with modified dimensions and reduced boiler mountings.
The numbering continued from where the Midland engines left off at 563 and eventually reached 700. 138 were built, though numbering is slightly complicated by renumberings and transfers.
Details
+ Table of orders and numbers Numbers Lot No. Datebuilt Built at Notes Original 2nd BR 563–571 — 40563–40571 49 1928 Derby 572 601 40601 49 1928 Derby Experimentally fitted with Owen's double port exhaust valves from new and renumbered immediately after entering service 572 — 40572 49 1928 Derby Replacement for first No. 572 573–574 — 40573–40574 49 1928 Derby 575–576 633–634 40633–40634 49 1928 Derby Transferred to S&DJR Nos 44–45 in 1928, retaken into LMS stock 1930 575–576 — 40575–40576 67 1929 Derby Replacement for engines transferred to S&DJR 577–579 — 40577–40579 49 1928 Derby 580 635 40635 49 1928 Derby Transferred to S&DJR No. 46 in 1928, retaken into LMS stock 1930. 580 — 40580 67 1929 Derby Replacement for engine transferred to S&DJR 581–600 — 40581–40600 49 1928 Derby 602–612 — 40602–40612 49 1928 Derby 613–628 — 40613–40627 67 1929 Derby 629–632 — 40629–40632 67 1930 Derby 636–660 — 40636–40660 76 1931 Crewe 661–665 — 40661–40665 77 1931 Derby 666–685 — 40666–40685 77 1932 Derby 686–700 — 40686–40700 85 1932 Crewe
Numbers 633 and 653 were fitted with Dabeg feedwater heater in 1933. Numbers 591 and 639 were withdrawn in 1934 after being heavily damaged in an accident at Port Eglinton Junction near Cumberland Street Station, Glasgow on 6 September of the same year. After nationalisation in 1948, British Railways added 40000 to the numbers of the remaining 136 engines. Further withdrawals came between 1954 and 1962. All were scrapped.
+ Table of withdrawals Year Number in service at start of year Number withdrawn Locomotive numbers 1934 138 2 591, 639. 1954 136 1 40662. 1957 135 1 40676. 1959 134 43 40565/67–68/73/76/82/87/89–90/94/98–601/05–08/10–11/16–17/33/36/44/49/53–56/58/60/66–67/73–75/77/79–80/88/93/99. 1960 91 10 40581/83–84/88,40630–31/52/71/90/98. 1961 81 66 40566/69–72/74–75/77–80/85–86/92–93/95–97,40602–04/09/12–15/18–29/32/35/37/40–43/45/47–48/50–51/59/61/63/68–69/78/82–87/89/91–92/95. 1962 15 15 40563–64, 40634/38/46/57/64–65/70/72/81/94/96–97,40700.
Models Hornby produce a 00 gauge model based on the old Dapol (formerly Airfix) tooling which is reasonably accurate. Graham Farish produced an N gauge model of the 4P 4-4-0 Compound when they were in Poole, Dorset, and the chassis for this could be modified to represent the 2P. Union Mills on the Isle of Man make a 2P in N gauge.
References
External links
Class 2P-B Details at Rail UK