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From 'Kearsley Power Station': A superb view, almost certainly posed and showing the Company's entire motive power fleet. In the background, No. 1 still carries her original livery but is in scruffy condition having probably not had a repaint during the war years. On the left No. 2 looks in similar condition and even No. 3, although only a year old, looks a little careworn. By contrast, No. 4 is smart and shiny. The common-user policy with private owner and other goods wagons, which evolved into a general pooling of rolling stok during the war years, seems to have by-passed the L.E.P.Co., completely. This is possibly a result of the wagons only being worked over a short distance on what was virtually a sealed system, between the power station, Kearsley Junction sidings and the collieries served by the Kearsley branch. Certainly none of the pre-1948 photographs show anything other than wagons in the Company's own livery. The diminutive size of these engines belies their tough nature. They could haul trains of up to 300 tons (although due to siding restrictions they rarely came within half of that) and it should be realised that, all the while Kearsley Power Station was settings records for production, these hardy locomotives were scuttling around the site keeping up with operations. Industrial Railway Society, Brian Webb Collection