The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Fowler Class 7F was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives. They were a Midlandised version of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Class G2 and Class G2A 0-8-0 s. They were also classified as Class G3 …

The LNWR, at Crewe, built the first eight-coupled goods engine intended for service in Britain in 1892 (the small Barry Railway in South Wales had earlier purchased some second hand 0-8-0s originally intended for Scandinavia). By 1922 the LNWR had the largest fleet of 0-8-0s in the country, having ceased to build 0-6-0s as early as 1902.

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Class G2 is a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives. 60 were built at Crewe Works in 1921–1922. Uniquely amongst classes of LNWR 8-coupled tender engines, they were not rebuilt from or into other classes. They were classified by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) as 5, from 1928 7F.

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Class G2A was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives. They were upgraded from LNWR Class G1 principally by the fitting of a higher pressure boiler. Some of the G2As subsequently received lower pressure boilers on overhaul, taking them back into Class G1.

49395 is an ancient survivor of class of heavy freight locomotives as a Beames development of a 1912 Bowen-Cooke LNWR design. Above, 49395 on shunting duties at Grosmont Station. Ex LNWR Class G2 freight 0-8-0 485, LMS 9395 (LNWR 485), BR 49395 is the sole survivor, built at Crewe Locomotive Works in 1921.

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Fowler Class 7F was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives. They were a Midlandised version of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Class G2 and Class G2A 0-8-0s. They were also classified …

Fowler 7F 0-8-0 These locomotives where intended to be an improved standardised version of the LNWR G2 0-8-0’s but proved to be a poor design due to Midland practice. They where used for hauling slow heavy mineral trains until Nationalisation when British railways began withdrawing them very quickly.

Class Class 7F (Locobase 3762) Data from Bryan Attewell ([] Steam locomotive simulator (April 2000 edition), corrected and supplemented by [], last accessed 10 May 2008. Glover (1967) says this is Sir Henry Fowler's update of a London & North Western mineral engine that used a Belpaire boiler like its predecessor.

Rail Album - The LNWR G2a 0-8-0 steam locomotive was the workhorse of the LNWR empire, some giving military service in France during the First World War. The last examples were withdrawn well into the BR era in 1964