Time Capsules - Old Photographs from the past

This is a 4MT Class Mogul 2-6-0 designed by George Ivatt, the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LMSR, the prototype of which emerged from the ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire workshops at Horwich, near Bolton in 1947. This was an austerity design, and only 3 were built before nationalization on 1 January 1948. Construction continued at Donaster, Darlington and Horwich until 162 had been built by 1952.
43106 has been preserved.

The locomotive class is featured in 'Heritage Railway' issue 129, October 2009, following the recent return to steam, after overhaul, of the sole survivor, 43106, on the Severn Valley Railway

One of the first class of locos I worked on as an apprentice at Doncaster Plant. It was for repair in the New Erecting Shop having been blown off an embankment somewhere. Memory unable to recall number, it's an age thing you know!

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