Trial Locomotives
The LMS used a number of locomotives on loan from their manufacturers for trials. These locomotives were not allocated LMS numbers, and details of their use and disposal are sketchy. Such locomotives included:
- Vulcan - a diesel-mechanical 0-6-0 shunter built at the Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows, in 1936. It had a Vulcan-Frichs 6-cylinder 275 hp (205 kW) diesel engine. After loan to the LMS, it was used by the War Department, which numbered it 75 (later 70075). Following the end of World War II, it found industrial use in Yugoslavia.
- (Unnumbered) - an Armstrong-Whitworth/Sulzer shunter built in 1932, which was an earlier version of the LMS's own 7408/7058. This locomotive was also loaned to the London and North Eastern Railway for trials.
Read more about this topic: LMS Diesel Shunters
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