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    Dec 17, 2021 5 minutes

    REVIEW OF THE MONTH

    The Joy of Jinties

    Ian Sixsmith

    Irwell Press, 59A High Street, Clophill, Beds MK45 4BE Tel: 01707 876713.

    Web: www.irwellpress.com

    Description: Hardback, 302mm x 218mm, 200pp

    ISBN: 9781911262556

    Price £19.95

    We all know of the LMS ‘3F’ 0-6-0T as the ‘Jinty’. However but no-one has ever positively established where the sobriquet came from, and the compiler first volume of anew Irwell Press series admits that he doesn’t know either.

    Preservation (ten examples) has been kind to this remarkable mass production class that did anything asked of it, working in all corners of the UK. It was in production right up to the moment that the LMS switched to its natural successor, the ubiquitous 0-6-0 diesel shunter. However, the steam class steadfastly avoided regular withdrawals until 1959.

    To suggest that the 400-plus ‘Jinties’ were only at home with humble yard duties

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