LMS Patriot Class
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The Patriot Class is a class of 52 express passenger steam locomotives built for the London Midland and Scottish Railway. The first locomotive of the class was built in 1930 and the last in 1934. The
45500 Patriot at Manchester Victoria, 1960.
5504 Royal Signals was built in 1932 and was originally numbered 5987 as a paper rebuild of an LNWR Claughton Class. Later renumbered 5504 and was named in 1937, finally becoming BR No. 45504, in which condition it is pictured at Bromsgrove. It was withdrawn in 1962 without ever being rebuilt.
Replica under construction.
LNWR Claughton Class
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The London and North Western Railway Claughton Class was a class of 4-cylinder express passenger 4-6-0 steam locomotives.
LMS Patriot Class
…first locomotive of the class was built in 1930 and the last in 1934. The class was based on the chassis of the Royal Scot combined with the boiler from Large Claughtons earning them the nickname Baby Scots. A total of 18 were rebuilt to create the LMS Rebuilt Patriot Class between 1946 and 1948; thereafter those not…
No. 2222 Sir Gilbert Claughton in photographic grey
LMS No. 5986 c.1928, with enlarged boiler