The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Princess Royal Class is a class of express passenger 4-6-2 steam locomotive designed by William Stanier. Twelve examples were built at Crewe Works, between 1933 and 1935, for use on the West Coast Main Line. Two are preserved.

In June 1934 6200 The Princess Royal hauled a test train of empty coaches and a dynamometer car weighing 470 tons from Crewe to Glasgow and back – a round trip of 490 miles. A comparison of the times allowed for the Mid Day Scot and the actual times achieved by …

The London Midland and Scottish Railway and its successor British Railways built 52 express passenger steam locomotives with a pacific 4-6-2 wheel arrangement. Four classes were built - the LMS Princess Royal Class (1933-1935), LMS Turbomotive, later rebuilt as Princess Anne, and the LMS Coronation Class (1937-1948). All were built at Crewe Works.

Black and white images of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway's (LMS) steam locomotive number 6200 "The Princess Royal". The top image shows the locomotive at a stand still and the bottom image shows the locomotive under steam. 6200 …

Preserved LMS Princess Royal class 4-6-2 number 46201 "Princess Elizabeth". LMS 6200 appeared in this advertisement by Geo. Turton Platts & Co Ltd in July 1942. Ex-LMS Princess Royal class 4-6-2 number 46208 "Princess Helena Victoria" at Shrewsbury locomotive depot.

Of the initial three engines, numbering from 6200, only the first two were built as standard Princess Royals; the third became Turbomotive. The designs reflected Stanier's GWR background (tapered boiler for example), but there were also some LMS features (e.g Derby-type injectors) and some fresh ideas of his own (e.g 4 independent sets of ...

6201 Princess Elizabeth is a preserved steam locomotive in England. It is one of two preserved LMS Princess Royal Class; the other being 46203 Princess Margaret Rose. 6201 was built in November 1933 at the London, Midland & Scottish Railway …

Mar 23, 2004 · Small class of Fowler/Lemon "design" which introduced to the LMS certain features that were to be used in future LMS Stanier designs, notably built-up balance weights, spring balanced reversing shaft and side bolster bogies. They had stove pipe chimneys, later replaced, and second-hand boilers.

Sep 25, 2015 · I have a vague memory from quite a few years ago of a photo of no.6200 being published in Steam Railway magazine, showing it when new, fitted with a...

Jun 6, 2008 · The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Princess Royal Class is a class of express passenger steam locomotive designed by William Stanier. Thirteen examples were built at Crewe Works, between 1933 and 1935, and two are preserved.