Stanier Princess Royal class : LMS era : 6200, 6201 & the Turbomotive 6202

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.
When originally built, they were used to haul the famous Royal Scot train between London Euston and Glasgow Central.
A prototype batch of three locomotives was to be constructed in 1933. Two were constructed as drawn but the third set of frames was retained as the basis for an experimental turbine locomotive.

Turbomotive
The third prototype was constructed with the aid of the Swedish Ljungstrom turbine company and known as the Turbomotive, although not named. It was numbered 6202, in sequence with the Princess Royals. Although 'generally similar' to the rest of the Princess Royals,[1] and 'not all that much different',[4] it used a larger 40 element superheater to give a higher steam temperature, more suitable for turbine use.[2][5][note 1] This boiler was also domeless as would later be used for the second batch of the Princess Royals. The continuous exhaust of the turbine, rather than the sharper intermittent blast of the piston engine, also required changes to the draughting and the use of a double chimney.[6][7] It entered service in June 1935 on the London–Liverpool service.[8]
This Turbomotive was rebuilt in 1952 with conventional 'Coronation' cylinders and named Princess Anne, but was soon destroyed in the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash
A second batch of eleven locomotives was constructed later.
Each locomotive was named after a princess, the official name for the class was chosen because Mary, Princess Royal was the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Scots. However, the locos 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 4-6-2 express passenger locomotive built by the LMS were of the related but larger, Coronation Class.
The class was withdrawn in the early 1960s in line with British Railways' modernisation plan.


6200 The Princess Royal Newton March 1934 with small Fowler tender with 'The Royal Scot' service

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6200/46200 The Princess Royal - Railway-Photography
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6200 The Princess Royal with Fowler tender at Brock


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6200/46200 The Princess Royal - Railway-Photography
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6200/46200 The Princess Royal - Railway-Photography
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6201 Princess Elizabeth


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6201/46201 Princess Elizabeth - Railway-Photography
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6201 Princess Elizabeth

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6201/46201 Princess Elizabeth - Railway-Photography
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6201 Princess Elizabeth Tebay 24th July 1937

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6201/46201 Princess Elizabeth - Railway-Photography
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6201 Princess Elizabeth

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6201/46201 Princess Elizabeth - Railway-Photography
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6202 The Turbomotive loco

6202 Shrewsbury

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6202 Turbomotive/46202 Princess Anne - Railway-Photography
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6202 Euston



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6202 Turbomotive/46202 Princess Anne - Railway-Photography
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6202 Crewe

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6202 Turbomotive/46202 Princess Anne - Railway-Photography
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6202 Turbomotive/46202 Princess Anne - Railway-Photography
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