LMS Jubilee Class

The Jubilee Class was a class of steam locomotives built for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway for main line passenger work. A total of 191 were built between 1934 and 1936, alongside the similar looking Stanier Class 5 4-6-0. The first five were ordered as members of Henry Fowler's Patriot class but were completed with William Stanier's taper boiler, which made them the first Jubilees, and 113 more were ordered straight from the drawing board. Early engines were short of steam because of their moderate superheating, and changes to the blastpipe and chimney dimensions largely cured this. Crews called them Jubs, and the crimson livery that set them apart from the black Stanier Fives earned them the name Red Staniers. The class took its name from number 5642, Silver Jubilee, named in 1935 for the silver jubilee of King George V, which permanently swapped identities with the first engine of the class, 5552.