LMS railcars

The LMS railcars were a varied group of diesel railcars and multiple units that the London, Midland and Scottish Railway introduced between 1927 and 1939. Most were single units, but one was a three-car articulated set and one a four-car set. In 1933 the LMS bought three four-wheeled diesel railcars from Leyland Motors, each with 40 third class seats and a 95 hp diesel engine, which British Railways withdrew in 1951. The most ambitious was a streamlined three-car articulated unit built at Derby in 1939, with six Leyland diesel engines giving 750 bhp and a maximum speed of 75 mph. It entered service at Bedford, was withdrawn on the outbreak of war and was converted in 1949 into an overhead line maintenance train. The LMS also trialled two Michelin tyred railcars in 1936 and 1937.