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Most of them never got LMS ones either.

 

I think it was due to difficulty attaching them to the smokebox door and possibly thought a waste of time fitting them as they didn't use roundhouses.

 

Or if you believe some writers it was that they didn't want to because the practice came from a rival company in the Midland Railway. I would take that with a pinch of salt as they didn't seem to have any problems adopting other Midland practices.

 

 

 

Jason

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IIRC this is discussed in the Essery & Jenkinson Illustrated History of LMS Locomotives, vol 1, the general overview and liveries volume. As I recall, the gist of it is that at first all locomotives were supposed to have smokebox door plates, but in practice the majority of ex-LNWR locos never got them, and by about the late '20's the practice had been officially abandoned - apart from on ex-Midland locos, which of course already had them, and new-build LMS standards - and they didn't last long on the minority of ex-LNWR locos which had received them when first repainted after grouping, 

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