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The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS [a]) was a British railway company.It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, [1] which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four.
The LNWR inherited its numbering system from one of its constituents, the Grand Junction Railway.Locomotives were numbered in a series commencing at 1. No gaps were allowed in the series, so a new locomotive would either be numbered at the end of the series or would reuse the number of an older locomotive.
The number of jointly operated lines was greatly reduced by the grouping but a substantial number survived, including the Cheshire Lines Committee, the Forth Bridge Railway, the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (all LMS/LNER) and the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (LMS/SR). At in excess of 180 track miles, the M&GN was the largest ...
The LMS electric units were built in 1926–32 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) for use on the Liverpool to Ormskirk line and the DC lines in north London, all in England. Having inherited systems with DC electrification, the LMS built a number of new 3-car electric multiple units. The trains were withdrawn in 1963 and 1964.
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was created under the terms of the Railways Act 1921. The first schedule to that Act listed four groups, and for each, a number of "Constituent Companies" were listed, as were a number of subsidiary companies.
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 passenger work, and 0-4-4T and 0-6-0T tank engines.
Turn off generator field (or notify the ground employee, depending on company-specific rules and locomotive type, that protection is provided). [1] [2] 10 wheeler (US) The 10-wheeler wheel arrangement A steam locomotive with a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement [3] 241 (US) Procession of a train past a stop signal with verbal permission from the ...
The company's locomotives ran a total of 1 941 407 engine miles of which 1 213 336 were loaded train miles. Carried 2 682 291 passengers; 99 053 head of livestock and 549 087 tons of goods traffic. The Committee owned 115 buses and 36 goods and parcels road vehicles.