The Midland had half-a-dozen of the MW H Class, five bought new between 1867 and 1873 and one second-hand from a Settle & Carlisle contractor in 1873 - the first was bought for use during the construction of St Pancras and seems to have stayed on for a while as a pilot at Kentish Town shed; the subsequent pairs were for Gloucester and Swansea Docks. By the 1880s, they were spending long periods on loan to collieries, quarries, and breweries connected to the Midland. The last two survived until March 1898 - very tempting to stretch that just a little; one would look very fine in fully-lined out crimson lake! [Ref. S. Summerson, Midland Railway Locomotives Vol. 2 (Irwell Press, 2007).]