Steam Locomotive Information

Here is the photo album for London Midland & Scottish Railway No. 46235 'City of Birmingham', a 4-6-2 located in Birmingham, Warwickshire. If you would like to suggest additional photos for this album, please click here.

The nameplate on the side of the boiler below the full arms of the City of Birmingham.

Detail of the rods and Walschaerts valve gear on the left hand side of the loco. On these four cylinder locos the outside valve gear also operated the valves for the inside cylinders via rocking levers. The connection to the lever is out of shot on the left.

The trailing coupled axle on the left hand side of the loco, showing the connection for the speedometer drive. The instrument was made by Smiths who also manufactured instrumentation for cars.

Inside the cab of this powerful Pacific. Notice that it is left hand drive, with a screw reverser and traditional regulator handle. Non British viewers may wonder what the sunflower - like dial is. This is for the Automatic Warning System, a British Railways fitment to advise drivers of signal aspect. failure to acknowledge the visual and audible signal would result in a brake application.

Detail of the driver's side instruments. Left - speedometer up to 100MPH, higher up, vacuum gauge for brakes, right AWS display - showing the aspect after passing a distant signal at 'caution' and acknowledging the audible signal. Bottom centre is the vacuum brake valve.


London Midland & Scottish Railway 4-6-2 No. 46235 'City of Birmingham' Birmingham, Warwickshire, UK	Location: Birmingham Discovery Centre Status: Display