LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 5231

Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 5231, British Railways number 45231, is a preserved British steam locomotive built by Armstrong-Whitworth in 1936 for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. It spent its early career mainly at Patricroft shed, working to North Wales and Leeds, was renumbered 45231 after nationalisation in 1948, and lasted until the last day of steam on British Railways in August 1968, working from Carnforth. Sold directly into preservation, it became associated with the Great Central Railway, where it hauled the opening train between Loughborough and Quorn in 1973. In preservation it has carried the names 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment and The Sherwood Forester, though it never carried either in service.