Midland Railway 1121 Class

The Midland Railway 1121 Class was a class of 0-6-0T tank locomotives designed by Samuel W. Johnson for the Midland Railway. Fifty-five were built between 1895 and 1900: ten at the railway company's Derby Works, five by Sharp, Stewart and Company, and the remaining forty by Robert Stephenson and Company. The class was a development of the 1377 class half-cab engines, differing in having the A1 type boiler in place of the earlier type A, a wheelbase stretched by six inches between the main and rear driving wheels, and a full cab. All 55 passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Withdrawals began in 1930, 23 reached British Railways ownership in 1948, and the last, number 41875, was withdrawn in July 1963. All were scrapped.