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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 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.
In addition to its own builds, the LMS still owned locomotives inherited from various constituent companies: the Caledonian Railway (CR), Furness Railway (FR), Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR), Highland Railway (HR), London and North Western Railway (LNWR), London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR), Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR), Midland Railway (MR), and North London ...
The Railways Act 1921 did not extend to Ireland, but Irish lines owned by constituent companies became part of the LMS: Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway (DNGR) 26 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (43 km) (owned by the LNWR) – operated from 1933 by the GNR(I) Northern Counties Committee lines (NCC) 265 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (427 km) (owned by the Midland Railway)
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Karrier Ro-Railer was a British experimental road-rail bus built by Karrier in 1931. Its road registration was UR7924. Its road registration was UR7924. Based on a Karrier Chaser bus with Cravens bodywork, it could run on the road on tyres or on standard gauge track.
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.
LMS Stanier 65' "QL" (BR "RFO") First Class Vestibule Diner No.7511 built at Wolverton 1934, Diagram 1902, Lot 734. In 1929 partially-simplified lined Crimson Lake livery. At Highley, Severn Valley Railway, 03/12 First Class interior (seen through the window glass) of LMS Stanier 65' "QL" (BR "RFO") First Class Vestibule Diner No.7511
William Stanier, with the backing of Sir Josiah Stamp, chairman of the company, reversed the small engine policy, which the LMS had inherited from the Midland Railway, with beneficial results. Locomotive designs introduced by Stanier include: LMS Class 2P 0-4-4T (designed in the Midland Railway design office) LMS Class 3MT 2-6-2T