LMS Fowler Dock Tank

The Fowler Dock Tank was an 0-6-0T steam shunting locomotive designed by Sir Henry Fowler for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway to work in docks. Dock curves were considerably sharper than those found elsewhere, so the design had a short 9 ft 6 in wheelbase and Cartazzi self-centring axleboxes on the rear axle, letting it negotiate curves of 2 and a half chains. Ten were built at Derby Works in 1928 and 1929, unusually for dock tanks with outside cylinders. They were numbered 11270 to 11279, then 7100 to 7109, and in 1939 7160 to 7169, and under British Railways 47160 to 47169, half of them going to Scottish depots for branch lines as well as docks. They spent their lives in plain black and were withdrawn between 1959 and 1964, with every example scrapped.