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) Jubilee Class was a class of 4-4-0

4-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-4-0 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles , four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels...

 4-cylinder compound locomotive

Compound locomotive

A compound engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages.A typical arrangement for a compound engine is that the steam is first expanded in a high-pressure cylinder, then having given up heat and losing pressure, it exhausts directly into one or more larger...

s by F.W. Webb. A total of forty were built from 1897–1900.

Slightly unusually for the LNWR, the class received a number series, this being 1901–1940.

As with other Webb compounds, they were mechanically unreliable. As a result, George Whale

George Whale

George Whale was a British locomotive engineer who worked for the London and North Western Railway .Whale was born in Bocking, Essex. In 1858 he entered Wolverton Works under James Edward McConnell, and from 1862 under John Ramsbottom. In 1865 he entered the drawing office at Crewe Works, and in...

 rebuilt these as two cylinder simple locomotives of the 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...

, starting with 1918 Renown in 1908. Rebuilt engines retained their numbers. Rebuilding continued so that at the grouping of 1923, only 9 Jubilees remained. These were 1903/4/8/11/12/15/23/27/29. 1908 Royal George was withdrawn in January 1923, but the remaining eight were allocated the LMS numbers 5110–5117, in sequence. Two, 1904 Rob Roy and 1923 Agamemnon were withdrawn 1923, without receiving new numbers. The LMS rebuilt the remaining six into Renowns in 1924, making the class extinct. (Their subsequent history is discussed at LNWR 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 list

LNWR Jubilee class locomotive list

LNWR No.	LNWR Name	Date built	Date rebuilt	LMS No.	Date withdrawn	Notes
1901	Jubilee			5156
1902	Black Prince			5157
1903	Iron Duke			5110
1904	Rob Roy		—	5111		Never carried its LMS number
1905	Black Diamond			5137
1906	Robin Hood			5149
1907	Black Watch			5178
1908	Royal George		—	—
1909	Crusader			5159
1910	Cavalier			5172
1911	Centurion			5112
1912	Colossus			5113
1913	Canopus			5132
1914	Invincible			5144		Renumbered 1257 in April 1920
1915	Implacable			5114
1916	Irresistible			5155
1917	Inflexible			5184
1918	Renown			5131
1919	Resolution			5160
1920	Flying Fox			5166
1921	John of Gaunt			5134		T. H. Ismay until April 1913
1922	Intrepid			5146
1923	Agamemnon		—	5115		Never carried its LMS number
1924	Powerful			5183
1925	Warrior			5147
1926	La France			5180
1927	Goliath			5116
1928	Glatton			5173
1929	Polyphemus			5117
1930	Ramillies			5142
1931	Agincourt			5176
1932	Anson			5162
1933	Barfleur			5169
1934	Blenheim			5165
1935	Collingwood			5133
1936	Royal Sovereign			5150
1937	Superb			5154
1938	Sultan			5161
1939	Temeraire			5158
1940	Trafalgar			5170