LT&SR 37 Class

The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway 37 class was a class of 4-4-2T suburban tank engines built in 1897 and 1898, designed by Thomas Whitelegg as a development of the earlier LT&SR 1 class. Six were built by Sharp, Stewart and Company in 1897 and a further six by Dubs and Company the following year, and the railway numbered them 37 to 48 and named them after places in Essex near its route. After the Midland Railway absorbed the company in 1912 they became 2146 to 2157 with power classification 3P, passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, and were finally numbered 41953 to 41964 by British Railways. All were withdrawn and scrapped between 1951 and 1952. A collision at Dagenham Dock in 1931 involved number 2139.