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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
London and North Western Railway 1681 m/e 09/1911
London, Midland & Scottish Railway (1st) 5373 m/e 05/1926
London, Midland & Scottish Railway (Dup.) 25373 m/e 05/1936
British Railways 58012 m/e Not applied

Names Carried
Date From Name
09/1911 PTARMIGAN

Locomotive Specifics
Designer C. Cooke
Class George V
Company History LNWR/LMS
Wheels 4-4-0
Builder Crewe Works
Works Number 5024
To Service During 09/1911
Withdrawal Sat 08/05/1948
Service Life 36 yrs, 8 mths , 7 dys

Disposal
Scrapping During 05/1948

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 09/1911
     Withdrawn on 08/05/1948

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC 7B Bangor w/e 28/06/1947
ALLOC 6A Chester (MR) w/e 11/10/1947
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
09/1911 To Service To service as London and North Western Railway Number 1681, name: PTARMIGAN
Built at Crewe Works, Works Number 5024
   
05/1926 Renumbered Renumbered to 5373    
05/1936 Renumbered Renumbered to 25373    
05/1948 Scrapped Scrapped    
08/05/1948 Withdrawn Condemned as 25373    
1949 Number Allocated Allocated number 58012 but not taken up    

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