LMS Stanier Mogul

The Stanier Mogul, officially the Stanier Class 5 2-6-0, was a class of 2-6-0 mixed traffic steam locomotives built for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Forty were built at Crewe Works between October 1933 and March 1934, although they were designed at Horwich Works as a development of the Hughes Crab. William Stanier, newly arrived from the Great Western Railway, brought over features such as the taper boiler. The higher boiler pressure allowed a cylinder diameter 3 in smaller than on the Crabs, so the cylinders could be mounted horizontally, which no other Stanier design did. The engines were numbered 13245 to 13284, renumbered 2945 to 2984 in 1934, and withdrawn between November 1963 and February 1967. One, 13268, has been preserved on the Severn Valley Railway.