LMS Patriot Class

The Patriot Class was a class of 52 express passenger steam locomotives built for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway between 1930 and 1934. It combined the chassis of the Royal Scot with the boiler of the Large Claughton, which earned the engines the nickname Baby Scots. The first two were rebuilt in 1930 from locomotives of the London and North Western Railway's Large Claughton Class, and of the other fifty, forty were nominal rebuilds of Claughtons, in fact new engines classified as rebuilds so that their cost could be charged to revenue rather than capital; the last ten were classed as new builds. From 1946 eighteen were rebuilt with Stanier 2A boilers to form the Rebuilt Patriot Class, and the 34 engines that were never rebuilt were withdrawn between 1960 and 1962. Most worked on the West Coast Main Line from sheds such as Crewe North and Carlisle Upperby.