The Midland Railway 1252 class was a class of thirty 0-4-4T locomotives built by Neilson and Company in 1875–1876 to the design of Samuel Waite Johnson.

The Midland used nominal 5-foot-6+1⁄2-inch (1,689 mm) diameter driving wheels for this class, whereas in all later engines (starting with the 1532 Class) they used nominal 5-foot-3-inch (1,600 mm) diameter wheels.

All but one locomotive passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) at the 1923 grouping; and nine, Nos 1239/46/47/49/51/52/55/60/61 were still in LMS stock at the end of 1947 and passed to British Railways (BR).

BR allocated them numbers 58030–58038, though only three 58033/36/38 received them before withdrawal.

All members of the class were withdrawn by 1954, and all were scrapped.