The Midland shaped the subsequent LMS locomotive policy until 1933. Its locomotives (which it always referred to as engines) followed a corporate small engine policy, with numerous class 2F, 3F and 4F 0-6-0s for goods work, 2P and 4P 4-4-0s for …

William Stanier was headhunted from the Great Western Railway to turn around the LMS' Midland-derived locomotive policy. He introduced a range of highly successful standard designs. LMS Class 2P 0-4-4T

1) The standard method of steam locomotive classification is used in most cases, with a number relating to the locomotive's power (0 being the least powerful, 8 being the most) followed by the letter 'P' for passenger, 'F' for freight or MT for "Mixed Traffic" (both freight and passengers).

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Ivatt, now CME with the sudden death of Fairburn, produced three light-to-medium power designs of steam locomotive, and just before nationalisation, the LMS produced the first mainline diesel locomotives.

Welcome to the LMS Society web site, which is concerned with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company, which owned and operated a large part of the railway system in the United Kingdom from January 1923 until December 1947.

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Coronation Class[a] is a class of express passenger steam locomotives designed by William Stanier.

The LMS used a system based on the power output of the loco and its intended use. The power was indicated by a digit from 0 to 9 (where 0 was the lowest powered and 9 the highest - although the 9 was never used by the LMS), and the use by one or two letters (P for passenger, XP for express passenger, F for freight, MT for mixed traffic).

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) No. 6399 Fury was an unsuccessful British experimental express passenger locomotive. The intention was to save fuel by using high-pressure steam, which is thermodynamically more efficient than low-pressure steam.

LMS 5428 was built in 1937 by Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle upon Tyne, one of an order for 227 such locomotives, the largest order ever placed by a British railway company with a private firm. A further 100 Black Fives were also built by the firm.