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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
London and North Western Railway 1832 m/e 07/1898
London, Midland & Scottish Railway 9038 m/e 02/1928
British Railways 49038 m/e Not applied

Locomotive Specifics
Designer F. Webb
Class A Compound
Company History LNWR/LMS
Rebuild History
ClassFrom
A07/1898
D01/1908
G1 (0-8-0)09/1934
Wheels 0-8-0
Builder Crewe Works
Works Number 3837
To Service During 07/1898
Withdrawal During 04/1948
Service Life 49 yrs, 9 mths , 1 dy

Disposal

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date Reference
    (New) m/e 07/1898  
8D   Widnes on 01/01/1948 (Snapshot)  
8A   Edge Hill w/e 21/02/1948  
     Withdrawn m/e 04/1948  

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC 8A Edge Hill w/e 21/02/1948
WDN   w/e 03/04/1948

* 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
07/1898 To Service To service as London and North Western Railway Number 1832
Built at Crewe Works, Works Number 3837		    
02/1928 Renumbered Renumbered to 9038    
01/01/1948 Allocation Allocation Snapshot - Widnes (8D)    
21/02/1948 Allocation Reallocated to Edge Hill (8A)    
04/1948 Withdrawn Condemned as 9038    
1949 Number Allocated Allocated number 49038 but not taken up    

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