LMS Hughes Crab

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Hughes Crab, also called the Horwich Mogul, was a class of mixed-traffic 2-6-0 steam locomotive built between 1926 and 1932. George Hughes, chief mechanical engineer of the LMS, designed it, and it was built at the former Lancashire and Yorkshire works at Horwich and the former London and North Western works at Crewe. Its large, steeply angled outside cylinders were a response to the restricted loading gauge of the English section of the LMS. His successor Henry Fowler put it into service and substituted Midland Railway fittings and a Derby standard tender, which made the class something of a hybrid. The engines earned a strong reputation on heavy mineral work in Scotland. The class was withdrawn between 1961 and 1967, and three locomotives are preserved.