LMS Project - Progress Report
| The Society's Locomotives of the LMS Project |
| The project to write the history of LMS steam locomotives is a vast exercise. Our records identify 10,270 locomotives of capital stock inherited from pre-grouping companies in 1923 or absorbed from the Somerset and Dorset in 1930, 4,636 built by the LMS including those to pre-grouping designs, and 639 built to LMS designs and added to stock by British Railways after nationalisation. In addition there were departmental locomotives and those operated by the LMS in Ireland. |
| The total of 15,595 capital stock locomotives is currently planned to be covered in 26 volumes, to which will be added a 27th volume on departmental and Irish locomotives. The Society has also covered the evolution of design and construction and of boilers, names of LMS and LNWR locomotives, the history of LMS diesel locomotives and railcars, and of the Southern Division of the LNWR including Wolverton Works, bringing the total coverage to 32 books. Of these 9 have been published to date. |
| A large number of locomotive classes are involved and consideration has been given as to the best way of dealing with them. The options are: |
| After deliberation no single option seemed applicable so it was necessary to adopt a mixture of all the options to suit best the various classes. |
| In summary the current position regarding the project is as shown in table 1. |
| Where a book has been published, its content is suitably covered elsewhere. Some other titles are self-evident. Where we believe that neither of these is the case, table 2 provides a brief description of anticipated coverage. |
| The Society seeks to recruit volunteer authors who have either researched a particular subject(s) or would like to do so. Financial support and team assistance is offered by the Society. Tables 1 and 2 show clearly the gaps in authorship for the project. Even if a subject appears to be covered, please contact us if you are interested, not only in single handed production but also in joint production of titles. |
| We also seek to produce books on more general railway topics and invite such authors to contact Reg. Anyone interested in joining our team can talk to us informally by contacting: |
| Publications Officer or | LMS Project Coordinator |
| Mr AR (Reg) Wood 70 Heathfields Downend Bristol BS16 6HS | MR RK (Dick) Taylor The Meadows Bardon Mill Hexham NE47 7AA |
| 01173 026634 email: Reg Wood | 01434 344210 |
Table 1 : Current status of the LMS project at February 2007 |
| Title | Author | Status |
| Locomotive design and construction | AF Cook | Published 1990 |
| Raising steam on the LMS | AF Cook | Published 1999 |
| Jubilees | R Townsin | Published 2006 |
| Diesel locos and railcars | EV Richards | Published 1996 |
| LMS loco names | J Goodman | Published 1994 |
| LNWR Southern Division and Wolverton Works | H Jack | Published 2001 |
| LNWR loco names | J Goodman | Published 2002 |
| Highland Railway classes | JRH Cormack and JL Stevenson | Published Vol 1 1988 Vol 2 1990 |
| Claughtons and Patriots | R Townsin | In preparation |
| Black Fives | R Simpson | In preparation |
| Hughes and Stanier 2-6-0s | J Young, D Tyreman | Publication in 2007 |
| Stanier 8Fs | J Waite | In preparation |
| Ivatt classes | B Sullivan | In preparation |
| Pacific classes | J Walford | In preparation |
| LNWR eight coupled locos | J Walford | In preparation |
| LYR passenger locos | M Oglesby | In preparation |
| Post grouping passenger tanks | Author needed | |
| Non standard heavy goods locos | Author needed | |
| LNWR passenger tanks | Author needed | |
| Royal Scots | Author needed | |
| LNWR tender locos 4-6-0, 4-4-0 and 2-4-0 | Author needed | |
| LNWR 0-6-0 classes and small goods tanks | Author needed | |
| LYR goods locos | Author needed | |
| Midland 4-4-0s | Author needed | |
| Midland 0-6-0s, 4-2-2s and 0-4-2 | Author needed (Research on Fowler 4Fs is complete) | |
| Midland tank locos | Author needed | |
| Caledonian tender locos | Author needed | |
| Caledonian tank locos | Author needed | |
| Glasgow and South Western classes | Author needed | |
| Smaller constituent companies | Author needed (Two volumes anticipated) | |
| Departmental and Irish locos | Author needed |
Table 2 : Brief description of anticipated coverage for particular titles |
| Title | Anticipated coverage |
| Ivatt classes | 420 2-6-0s and 2-6-2Ts of which 32 were built by the LMS and the rest by British Railways. |
| Post grouping passenger tanks | 717 Fowler, Stanier and Fairburn tanks built by the LMS and the further 147 Fairburn 2-6-4Ts built by British Railways |
| Non standard heavy goods locos | 33 Beyer-Garrett 2-6-6-2s, 175 Fowler 0-8-0s built by the LMS together with the Fowler 0-10-0 built by the Midland and the 11 SDJR 2-8-0s |
| LNWR passenger tanks | 436 locos of six Bowen-Cooke, Whale and Webb designs, including 4 built for the Wirral Railway. |
| LNWR eight coupled locos | 601 locos of ten Bowen-Cooke, Whale and Webb designs together with 50 R.O.D. 2-8-0s bought by the LNWR and LMS, and 30 Beams 0-8-4T locos built by the LMS |
| LNWR tender locos 4-6-0, 4-4-0 and 2-4-0 | 931 locos of eleven Whale, Bowen-Cooke and Ramsbottom designs, plus 1 Prince of Wales 4-6-0 built by the LMS |
| LNWR 0-6-0 classes and small goods tanks | 1266 locos of ten Park, Bowen-Cooke and Ramsbottom designs, including 30 built for the North London Railway |
| LYR passenger locos | 475 locos of nine LYR Hughes and Aspinall designs, together with 35 locos of two Hughes LMS designs |
| LYR goods locos | 1176 locos of thirteen LYR Barton Wright, Hughes and Aspinall designs |
| Midland 4-4-0s | 394 locos of eleven Johnson, Fowler and Deeley classes together with 330 locos of two Fowler classes built by the LMS. Includes 8 locomotives built for the SDJR. |
| Midland 0-6-0s, 4-2-2s and 0-4-2 | 1866 locos of twenty-three Kirtley, Johnson, Deeley and Fowler classes, together with 15 locomotives absorbed from the SDJR and 585 Fowler 0-6-0s built by the LMS |
| Midland tank locos | 660 locos of fourteen classes mainly of Johnson, Fowler and Deeley design and 415 Fowler 0-6-0Ts built by the LMS. Includes 19 locomotives built for the SDJR. |
| Caledonian tender locos | 660 locos of thirty-two classes many with few members and 20 built by the LMS |
| Caledonian tank locos | 416 locos of twenty-one classes and 10 LMS built |
| Glasgow and South Western classes | 528 locos of no less than forty-eight classes plus 2 built for the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway |
| Smaller constituent companies | 569 locos from the Furness Railway (136), Maryport and Carlisle (33), North Staffordshire (184), Knott End (3), Wirral (12), London Tilbury and Southend (82), North London (79), Somerset and Dorset (21), Cleator and Workington Junction (6) and Stratford and Midland Junction (13). Together with 49 LMS built |
| Departmental and Irish locos | 0-4-0Ts and 0-4-0 sentinels, Crewe and Horwich narrow gauge locos, locos of the Civil Engineers’ department not otherwise covered, locos of the Northern Counties Committee and locos of Dundalk, Newry and Greenore |
| Last update: March 2008 |