The London and North Western Railway

London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three companies – the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway...

 (LNWR) Claughton Class was a class of 4-cylinder express passenger 4-6-0

4-6-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-6-0 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles in a leading truck, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles, and no trailing wheels. This wheel arrangement became the second-most popular...

 steam locomotive

Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning some combustible material, usually coal, wood or oil, to produce steam in a boiler, which drives the steam engine...

s.

They were introduced in 1913, the first of the class No. 2222 was named in honour of Sir Gilbert Claughton, who was the Chairman of the LNWR at that time. A total of 130 were built, all at Crewe works

Crewe Works

Crewe railway works is a British railway engineering facility built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway. It is located in the town of Crewe, in the county of Cheshire....

 up to 1921.

The LNWR reused numbers and names from withdrawn locomotives, with the result that the numbering was completely haphazard. An exception was made for the LNWR's war memorial

War memorial

A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or to commemorate those who died or were injured in war.-Historic usage:...

 engine, 1920 - built Patriot, which acquired the number 1914 from a Renown Class

LNWR Renown Class

The London and North Western Railway Renown Class was a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives. They were rebuilds of F.W. Webb's 4 cylinder compounds of the Jubilee and Alfred the Great classes into 2 cylinder simple engines by George Whale, later continued by Charles Bowen-Cooke.The first to be...

 locomotive. The LMS renumbered them into the more logical series 5900–6029, no. 1914 becoming 5964. Twenty were rebuilt by the LMS with larger boilers, and ten of these had Caprotti valve gear

Caprotti valve gear

The Caprotti valve gear is a type of steam engine valve gear invented in the early 1920's by Italian architect and engineer Arturo Caprotti. It uses camshafts and poppet valves rather than the piston valves used in other valve gear...

. Twelve others were rebuilt as the initial engines of the LMS Patriot Class

LMS Patriot Class

The Patriot Class was a class of 52 express passenger steam locomotives built for the London Midland and Scottish Railway. The first locomotive of the class was built in 1930 and the last in 1934. All of the Patriot class locomotives were withdrawn from service by 1965...

, though not much material was reused.

From 1927 with the introduction of the LMS Royal Scot Class

LMS Royal Scot Class

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Royal Scot Class is a class of 4-6-0 express passenger locomotive introduced in 1927. Originally having parallel boilers, all members were later rebuilt with tapered type 2A boilers, and were in effect two classes.-Background:Until the mid-1920s, the LMS...

, the Claughtons' main work had been taken away and many were transferred to the Midland Division.

At the end of 1939, all but one, 6004 Princess Louise, had been withdrawn. The Second World War caused such a motive power shortage however that 6004 soldiered on in terrible condition on local freight duties in the Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...

 area. Acquired by British Railways in 1948, it was allocated the BR number 46004 but was withdrawn in 1949 without it being applied. None were preserved.

Details

LNWR No.	LMS No.	Built	Name	Date Named	With- drawn	Notes
2222	5900		Sir Gilbert Claughton	From new
1161	5901		Sir Robert Turnbull	From new
1191	5902		Sir Frank Ree	From new
21	5903		Duke of Sutherland Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland , styled Lord Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower until 1858, Earl Gower between 1858 and 1861 and Marquess of Stafford between 1861 and 1892, was a British peer and politician.-Background:Sutherland was the son of George...	From new
163	5904		Holland Hibbert	From new
650	5905		Lord Rathmore David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore PC, QC was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...	From new
1159	5906		Ralph Brocklebank	From new		†
1319	5907		Sir Frederick Harrison	From new
1327	5908		Alfred Fletcher	From new		‡
2046	5909		Charles N. Lawrence	From new
250	5910		J. A. Bright John Albert Bright John Albert Bright was an English Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament in England. He was the son of the Liberal reformer John Bright....	From new		†
260	5911		W. E. Dorrington William E. Dorrington William E Dorrington was Chairman and Treasurer of the Manchester Royal Exchange Limited, a director of the London and North Western Railway Company , a Merchant and Shipper and formerly a major of the 3rd battalion Cheshire Regiment of Volunteers....	From new
1131	5912		Lord Faber Edmund Faber, 1st Baron Faber Edmund Beckett Faber, 1st Baron Faber was a British Conservative politician.-Political career:Faber was Member of Parliament for Andover between a by-election in 1901 and the dissolution in 1905...	From new
1429	5913		Colonel Lockwood Amelius Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne Lieutenant-Colonel Amelius Richard Mark Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne PC, GCVO, JP, DL was a British soldier and politician.-Background and education:...	From new
209	5914		J. Bruce Ismay J. Bruce Ismay Joseph Bruce Ismay was an English businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line of steamships. He came to international attention as the highest-ranking White Star official among the 706 survivors Joseph Bruce Ismay (12 December 1862 – 17 October 1937) was...	From new
668	5915		Rupert Guinness Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh KG CB CMG VD ADC FRS, , was an Anglo-Irish businessman, politician, oarsman and philanthropist. Born in London, he was the eldest son of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh...	From new
856	5916		E. Tootal Broadhurst	From new
1567	5917		Charles J. Cropper	From new
2239	5918		Frederick Baynes	From new
2401	5919		Lord Kitchener Earl Kitchener Earl Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The titles Viscount Broome, of Broome in the County of Kent, and Baron Denton, of Denton in the County of Kent, were granted along with the earldom...	From new
511	5920		George Macpherson	From new
695	5921		Sir Arthur Lawley	From new
968	5922		Lord Kenyon Baron Kenyon Lord Kenyon, Baron of Gredington, in the County of Flint, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1788 for the lawyer and judge Sir Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baronet. He served as Master of the Rolls and as Lord Chief Justice of England. Kenyon had already been created a Baronet, of...	From new
1093	5923		Guy Calthrop Guy Calthrop Sir Calthrop Guy Spencer Calthrop, 1st Baronet was a British railway manager.Born in Uppingham, Rutland, his brother was Everard Calthrop, railway engineer. He entered the London and North Western Railway as a Cadet at the age of 16 in 1886. In 1892 he was appointed outdoor assistant to the...	From new		Sir Guy Calthrop from March 1919
1345	5924		James Bishop	From new
2174	5925		E. C. Trench Ernest Crosbie Trench Ernest Frederic Crosbie Trench CBE, TD was a British civil engineer.Ernest was born on 6 August 1869 to George Frederic Trench and Frances Charlotte Talbot Crosbie. Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, sister to Edward IV and Richard III was an ancestor of Ernest's mother...	From new
2204	5926		Sir Herbert Walker K.C.B. Herbert Ashcombe Walker Sir Herbert Ashcombe Walker, KCB was a British railway manager.-Early life:Walker was born in London 15 May 1868. He was educated at the North London Collegiate School and at Bruges.-Career:...	From new
2221	5927		Sir Francis Dent	From new		‡
2338	5928		Charles H. Dent	From new
2395	5929		J. A. F. Aspinall John Aspinall (engineer) Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall was a British mechanical engineer who served as Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Southern and Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways. He introduced vacuum brakes to his locomotives in Ireland, a trend which was followed in Britain, and designed...	From new
37	5930		G. R. Jebb	From new
154	5931		Captain Fryatt Charles Fryatt Charles Algernon Fryatt was a British mariner who attempted to ram a German U-boat in 1915. His ship, the was captured by the Germans in 1916. When it became clear who he was, Fryatt was court-martialled and executed, although he was a civilian. There was international outrage following his...	From new
155	5932		I. T. Williams	From new		Sir Thomas Williams from December 1919
162	5933
186	5934
713	5935
1334	5936
2042	5937
2097	5938
2230	5939		Clio
1019	5940		Columbus
1355	5941
2366	5942
2373	5943		Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language....
2411	5944
2420	5945		Ingestre Ingestre Ingestre is a village and former civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It is four miles to the north-east of the county town of Stafford.Ingestre Hall is a local landmark....
2427	5946		Duke of Connaught Duke of Connaught and Strathearn The title Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was granted by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to her third son, Prince Arthur....			‡
2431	5947
2445	5948		Baltic			‡
2450	5949
116	5950
159	5951
171	5952
986	5953		Buckingham			†
1085	5954
1103	5955
2122	5956
2368	5957					‡
2416	5958
2426	5959
69	5960
178	5961
194	5962					‡
972	5963
1914	5964		Patriot In memory of the Fallen LNWR Employees 1914-1919	From new
484	5965
1177	5966		Bunsen
1407	5967		L./Cpl. J. A. Christie, V.C. John Alexander Christie John Alexander Christie VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
1599	5968		John O’Groat
2179	5969
2499	5970		Patience			†
2511	5971		Croxteth Croxteth Croxteth is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward. Although housing in the area is predominantly modern, the suburb has some notable history. It is known locally as "Crocky"...
1726	5972					†
1741	5973
1747	5974
12	5975		Talisman			‡
2035	5976		Private E. Sykes, V.C. Ernest Sykes Ernest Sykes VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....			Name transferred to 6015 in April 1926
2083	5977					Locomotive badly damaged in head-on collision near Doe Hill station on 12 February 1929.
2231	5978
2268	5979		Frobisher
85	5980
98	5981
103	5982
201	5983
499	5984
808	5985
1092	5986					†
1096	5987
1097	5988		Private W. Wood, V.C. Wilfred Wood Wilfred Wood VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....			Name transferred to 6018 in April 1926
1133	5989
1326	5990
2059	5991		C. J. Bowen-Cooke
2090	5992
2095	5993					†
6	5994
8	5995
10	5996
11	5997
2101	5998
2430	5999		Vindictive HMS Vindictive HMS Vindictive has been the name of more than one Royal Navy ship*HMS Vindictive, a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1813 and sold in 1871.*HMS Vindictive, an Arrogant class cruiser used in the Zeebrugge Raid...			† LNWR No. 13 until October 1922. Name removed in August 1936.
15	6000
23	6001
30	6002		Thalaba Thalaba the Destroyer Thalaba the Destroyer is an 1801 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's school boy days, but he did not begin to write the poem until he finished composing Madoc at the age of 25. Thalaba the Destroyer was completed while Southey travelled in...			.
32	6003
42	6004		Princess Louise			† Name removed in June 1935
36	6005
68	6006
102	6007
110	6008		Lady Godiva Lady Godiva Godiva , often referred to as Lady Godiva , was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants...
119	6009
149	6010
150	6011		Illustrious HMS Illustrious (1896) The third HMS Illustrious of the British Royal Navy was a Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1896. She was in front-line service during the final years of the 19th century and early 20th century...
152	6012
156	6013					‡
157	6014
158	6015		Private E. Sykes, V.C. Ernest Sykes Ernest Sykes VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....			Name transferred from 5976
161	6016
169	6017		Breadalbane			†
179	6018		Private W. Wood, V.C. Wilfred Wood Wilfred Wood VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....			Name transferred from 5988
180	6019		Llewellyn
183	6020
192	6021		Bevere
205	6022
207	6023		Sir Charles Cust Cust Baronets There have been two Baronetcies created for members of the Cust family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom....			‡
208	6024
210	6025
211	6026
517	6027
1216	6028
1220	6029					‡

• † Locomotives fitted with larger boilers from 1928.
• ‡ Locomotives fitted with Caprotti valve gear and larger boilers from 1928.