LMS Princess Royal Class

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Image:6201 Princess Elizabeth at Chester.jpg Image:46201 at Carlisle.jpg The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Princess Royal Class is a class of an express passenger steam locomotive designed by William Stanier. They were pacifics (i.e. had a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement. Thirteen examples were built at Crewe Works, between 1933 and 1935 and two are preserved.

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Overview

When originally built, they were used to haul the famous Royal Scot train. A single example of a version using steam turbines instead of cylinders was built as 6202 (see The Turbomotive). They were withdrawn in the early 1960s in line with British Railway's modernisation plan. Two examples, 6201 Princess Elizabeth and 46203 Princess Margaret Rose are preserved. Each locomotive was named after a princess, the official name for the class was chosen as Mary, Princess Royal was the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Scots. However, they were known to railwaymen as "Lizzies", after the second example of the class named for Princess Elizabeth who later became Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom). Later examples of express passenger locomotive built by the LMS were of the related but larger, Princess Coronation Class.

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Details

Numbers		Name(s)	Date		Notes
LMS	BR	Name(s)	Built	Withdrawn	Notes
6200	46200	(The) Princess Royal	1933
6201	46201	Princess Elizabeth	1933		Preserved.
6203	46203	Princess Margaret Rose	1933	1962	Preserved. Owned by the Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust.
6204	46204	Princess Louise	1933
6205	46205	Princess Victoria	1935		Fitted with modified valve gear, 1938.
6206	46206	Princess Marie Louise	1935
6207	46207	Princess Arthur of Connaught	1935
6208	46208	Princess Helana Victoria	1935
6209	46209	Princess Beatrice	1935
6210	46210	Lady Patricia	1935
6211	46211	Queen Maud	1935
6212	46212	Duchess of Kent	1935