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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station: lnwrcov3151
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LMS 4-6-0 5XP Patriot class No 5529 'Sir Herbert Walker KCB'
stands at platform 2 on a down express service. Built by Crewe works in April
1933, No 5529 received its first name by October 1937. It was when the
locomotive was rebuilt with a Stanier 2A tapered boiler in July 1948 that the
locomotive acquired its second name 'Stephenson' which it carried until
February 1964 when the locomotive was withdrawn from 16B Annesley shed to be
scrapped by Crewe works. There were fifty-two members of the Patriot class
designed under the auspices of Sir Henry Fowler, CME to the LMS, to fulfill the
function of a secondary class of express passenger locomotives. The first
member of the class was built in 1930 whilst the last member was built in 1934.
William Stanier, the then new CME of the LMS, continued the building of the 5XP
type locomotives but to his new Jubilee class design. The Patriot class design
was based on the chassis of the then new Royal Scot class but combined with the
smaller boiler from the rebuilt Claughtons locomotives, earning them the
nickname Baby Scots. All of the Patriot class locomotives were withdrawn
from service by 1965. Between 1946 and 1948 eighteen of the class were rebuilt
with the Stanier 2A boiler, cab and tender, although in reality these were
accountancy rebuilds the rebuilt locomotive having very little of the original
locomotive incorporated into its design.
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