LMS Stanier 2-6-2T

The Stanier Class 3P 2-6-2T was a class of 139 steam tank locomotives built for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, a taper boiler version of Henry Fowler's 1930 design with the same general dimensions and some improvements. The cab had its coal bunker built higher than the rear cab windows but angled inwards to give good visibility when running bunker first. The first two lots were built with domeless number 6 boilers and the rest with improved 6A boilers with a separate top feed and dome, and Adams vortex blastpipes were later added to improve steaming. They were under-boilered and generally regarded as the least successful of Stanier's standard designs. They worked stopping, suburban, branch, empty stock and banking duties, and the class was withdrawn between November 1959 and December 1962 with none preserved.