LMS

Note: unless otherwise stated, all pictures are the copyright of Paul Egerton.

Not strictly an engine of LMS origin, 53808 was designed and built for the Somerset and Dorset Railway in July 1925 by the Midland Railway who as joint owners of the S&D with the London and South Western Railway had responsibility for locomotive policy. Clear Midland influences can be seen with a boiler from Midland Compounds with a Belpaire firebox and Walschaerts valve gear.

53808 is now preserved by the Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust and it currently runs on the West Somerset Railway.  Seen here at Blue Anchor Station on 27 October 2018.

Number 6201 “Princess Elizabeth” on a positioning move and passing Stoke Hammond on 22 August 2016.

The LMS Jubilee Class – so called as the first of the class, number 5552, permanently swapped identities with number 5642 which has been named “Silver Jubilee” on 19 April 1935 in recognition of the Silver Jubilee of King George V on 6 May that year.; the change gave the name to the rest of the class.

Four Jubilee Class engines have survived into preservation. Here we see number 45690 Leander in BR Mixed Traffic black livery crossing the Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle Line on 9 September 2017. Also pictured the following day, is 45699 Galatea taking water at Hellifield Goods Loop on 10 September 2017.

45596 Bahamas passing Milton Keynes on 3 Nov 2020 en-route from the Mid Hants Railway where it had taken part in their autumn gala. Seen here heading northbound on the slow line towards its home base on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.