LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Tamworth Station: lnwr_tam3126

Ex-LMS 4-6-0 6P Rebuilt Royal Scot No 6160 'Queen Victoria's Rifleman' at speed on the down Manchester service on 17th May 1948. The locomotive is still carrying its LMS livery and has not yet been allocated its British Railways number. This was achieved by adding 40,000 to the LMS' running numbers, hence No 6160 became No 46160, the number being applied in August 1948. The locomotive had been built with parallel boilers by Derby works in August 1930 but when these were life expired the opportunity was taken to replace them with a modified tapered boiler based on the design used on British Legion, the rebuilt experimental Fury locomotive. The locomotive remained in service until May 1965 when it was withdrawn from 12A Kingmoor shed in Carlisle. The rebuilt Royal Scots had their true origins when the LMS rebuilt two LMS Jubilee Class locomotives with Type 2A boilers in 1942.

Between 1943 and 1955 the whole class was rebuilt, the rebuild being quite substantial, requiring new boiler, frames and cylinders. But in most cases the original frame stretchers, wheels, cab and fittings were retained. The usual procedure carried out was that as each locomotive arrived for rebuilding, it was stripped and the identity transferred to a fresh frameset prepared using the parts recovered from the locomotive that had previously been re-built. The new frames were slightly shorter than the originals. Thus, most rebuilt examples retained their own cab, wheels etc., but most of the frame stretchers, and other integral parts of the frame were from the previously re-built locomotive. The new 'Rebuilt Scot' design was carried out under the auspices of William Stanier, who was then engaged on war work, and so the actual design work was undertaken by George Ivatt and ES Cox.

This photograph is displayed courtesy of the HMRS (Historical Model Railway Society) and copies can be ordered directly from them using the link HERE, quoting reference AES920

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