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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
London and North Western Railway 9 m/e 05/1899
London, Midland & Scottish Railway (1924) 8484 m/e 01/1928
London, Midland & Scottish Railway (Dup.) 28484 m/e 07/1942
British Railways 58387 m/e Not applied

Locomotive Specifics
Designer F. Webb
Class Cauliflowers
Company History LNWR/LMS
Wheels 0-6-0
Builder Crewe Works
Order Number No Order ID issued
Works Number 3918
To Service During 05/1899
Withdrawal During 05/1948
Service Life 49 yrs

Disposal

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 05/1899
     Withdrawn m/e 05/1948

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC 12D Workington w/e 09/11/1946
WDN   w/e 08/05/1948

* Stephenson Locomotive Society data - raw and not yet cross-referenced

Mentions ...
Report Date Title Report Source
31/05/1948 Crewe Works New construction for the past month produced only three Caprotti 4-6-0's: No. 44756 (No. 9 of Order E468) completed on 10/5, and No. 44741 and 44742 (Nos. 4 & 5 of Order E.469) completed on 18/5 and 28/5 respectively.
Condemned engines cut-up during the past month were dealt with a follows: W/E 8/5 Nos. 7821, 9250; W/E 15/5 Nos. 7769, 9038; W/E 22/5 Nos. 6673, 6738, 9013; W/E 29/5 Nos. 6740, 6920, 25373 an 28484.
A number of War Department 2-8-0's of the standard L.M.S. '8F' type have recently returned from the Middle East, and are at present stored in the old carriage works. They are Nos. 70300/01/11/14/18/32/63/94/95/98, 70401/2/3/13/38/43/46/49, 70504/18/76/77/79/82/88 an 70611. Several of these engines are fitted with steam turbo-generators mounted on the right-hand side of the firebox, but no electric lights are in evidence, although conduit piping still exists along the boilers of a few engines.
Eight locomotives were recently painted in the new experimental liveries of the British Railways Six Class '7P' 4-6-2's Nos. 46224/27/30/1/2/41 were painted blue (the shade approaching that of Oxford blue), and lined in accordance gwith ex L.N.W.R. practice, whilst two Class '6P' 4-6-0's Nos. 45540 an 46139 were painted green (a shade closely resembling the standard L.N.E.R. green) and also lined in the ex L.N.W.R. style. All eight engines had their buffers, cylinder covers, motion, etc., scoured bright
SLS/194807

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
05/1899 To Service To service as London and North Western Railway Number 9
Built at Crewe Works, Works Number 3918
   
01/1928 Renumbered Renumbered to 8484    
07/1942 Renumbered Renumbered to 28484    
05/1948 Withdrawn Condemned as 28484    
1949 Number Allocated Allocated number 58387 but not taken up    

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