LMS Rebuilt Jubilee Class

The Rebuilt Jubilee Class consisted of just two 4-6-0 steam locomotives, rebuilt in 1942 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from Jubilee Class engines built at Crewe in 1936. Number 5736 Phoenix was rebuilt in April 1942 and 5735 Comet a month later, and they were the second and third engines to receive the Stanier 2A boiler, after the 1935 rebuild of 6170 British Legion. Their original 3A boilers were not life expired, so they were refurbished and reused on other engines. Rated 6P, they were a direct upgrade in power and steaming but about 3 tons heavier, which limited where they could run. From 1943 the LMS chose not to repeat the conversion on the other 189 Jubilees and rebuilt Royal Scots and Patriots instead. Both passed to British Railways in 1948 as 45735 and 45736 and were withdrawn in 1964, and neither was preserved.