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The Caledonian Railway 944 Class were 4-6-2T passenger tank locomotives designed by William Pickersgill and built in 1917, at the North British Locomotive Company's Hyde Park Works in Glasgow. They were the Caledonian Railway's only Pacific-type.
Although the Caledonian Railway built a long and successful series of small 0-4-4T passenger tank engines, the twelve locomotives of the 944 Class were the only large passenger tanks operated by the company. They shared much of their design with the contemporary 60 Class 4-6-0s. [2] They were originally used on the Inverclyde Line and so gained the nickname 'Wemyss Bay Pugs' amongst enginemen.
The locomotives passed into the ownership of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) upon its formation in 1923, and were repainted from Caledonian blue into LMS crimson lake livery, although within a few years this gave way to lined black livery. They were later displaced from the Inverclyde line by LMS Fowler and Fairburn 2-6-4Ts and by the time of nationalisation in 1948, the surviving locomotives were all allocated to Beattock shed, primarily for banking duties on Beattock Summit. They were all withdrawn and scrapped between 1946 and 1953.
| CR no. | LMS no. | BR no. | Builder's no. | Delivered | Withdrawn |
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| 944 | 15350 | 55350 | NBL 21480 | 03/1917 | 04/1952 |
| 945 | 15351 | (55351) | NBL 21481 | 03/1917 | 12/1948 |
| 946 | 15352 | 55352 | NBL 21482 | 01/1917 | 03/1952 |
| 947 | 15353 | 55353 | NBL 21483 | 01/1917 | 08/1951 |
| 948 | 15354 | 55354 | NBL 21484 | 01/1917 | 08/1949 |
| 949 | 15355 | (55355) | NBL 21485 | 01/1917 | 01/1948 |
| 950 | 15356 | 55356 | NBL 21486 | 01/1917 | 06/1950 |
| 951 | 15357 | NBL 21487 | 01/1917 | 07/1946 | |
| 952 | 15358 | NBL 21488 | 04/1917 | 05/1946 | |
| 953 | 15359 | 55359 | NBL 21489 | 04/1917 | 10/1953 |
| 954 | 15360 | 55360 | NBL 21490 | 05/1917 | 02/1952 |
| 955 | 15361 | 55361 | NBL 21491 | 05/1917 | 06/1952 |
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Coronation Class is a class of express passenger steam locomotives designed by William Stanier. They were an enlarged and improved version of his previous design, the LMS Princess Royal Class, and on test were the most powerful steam locomotives ever used in Britain at 2,511 dbhp. The locomotives were specifically designed for power as it was intended to use them on express services between London Euston and Glasgow Central; their duties were to include the hauling of a proposed non-stop express, subsequently named the Coronation Scot. The first ten locomotives of the Coronation class were built in a streamlined form in 1937 by the addition of a steel streamlined casing. Five of these ten were specifically set aside to pull the Coronation Scot. Although a later batch of five unstreamlined locomotives was produced in 1938, most of the ensuing Coronation class were outshopped as streamliners. From 1944 until production ended in 1948, all-new engines were built in unstreamlined form and all the streamliners had their casings removed. The last of the 38 locomotives was completed in 1948.
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