LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 5407

LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' is a LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 locomotive engine built at Armstrong Whitworth in 1937. Owned by railway engineering company Riley and Son, it is one of 18 surviving Black 5 locomotives.

LMS 5407
45407 waiting in the platform at Carlisle to depart with the return leg of "The Winter Cumbrian Mtn Express" on Sat 24 January 2015.
Type and origin Power type Steam Designer William Stanier Builder Armstrong Whitworth Build date Sept 1937
Specifications Configuration: ​  • Whyte 4-6-0 Gauge 4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) Leading dia. 3 ft 3 ^1⁄2 in (1.003 m) Driver dia. 6 ft 0 in (1.829 m) Length 63 ft 7 ^3⁄4 in (19.40 m) Fuel type Coal Fuel capacity 9 long tons (9.1 t; 10.1 short tons) Water cap 4,000 imp gal (18,000 l; 4,800 US gal) Firebox:  • Firegrate area 28 ^1⁄2 sq ft (2.65 m^2) Boiler LMS type 3C Boiler pressure 225 lbf/in^2 (1.55 MPa) Cylinders Two, outside Cylinder size 18 ^1⁄2 in × 28 in (470 mm × 711 mm) Valve gear Walschaerts Valve type Piston valves Loco brake Vacuum (Air Brakes fitted) Safety systems AWS, TPWS, OTMR, GSMR
Performance figures Maximum speed 25mph - (heritage railways) 45mph - (mainline, tender first) 60mph - (mainline, chimney first) Tractive effort 25,455 lbf (113.23 kN)
Career Operators London, Midland and Scottish Railway → British Railways Power class LMS: 5P5F BR: 5MT Axle load class BR: Route Availability 7 Withdrawn August 1968 Current owner Ian Riley Disposition Operational; mainline certified

Operations

No. 45407 was built by Armstrong Whitworth of Scotswood, Newcastle, in 1937 for the London Midland and Scottish Railway. It was works No. 1462, one of 226 locomotives which formed the largest order ever placed with a private builder by a British railway company, worth £2.7 million.[1]

It was outshopped initially to Kettering, and then worked along the Midland Main Line. In the late 1960s the engine was moved between various sheds ending up at Lostock Hall in 1968.[1] During its working life no. 45407 was based at the following sheds:

• Kettering
• Shrewsbury
• Derby (on loan)
• Derby
• Holbeck
• Grimesthorpe
• Millhouses
• Derby
• Saltley
• Derby
• Kentish Town
• Bedford
• Nottingham
• Burton
• Speke Junction (on loan)
• Speke Junction
• Lostock Hall

Preservation

One of the final Black 5s in operation, 45407 was withdrawn on 4 August 1968. Dr Peter Beet, the co-founder of Steamtown Carnforth, with Sir Bill McAlpine, and business partner David Davis, visited Lostock Hall MPD to choose a locomotive to save, selecting No. 45407. Davis bought the locomotive for £3,300,[1] and it became part of the Steamtown collection, where for some time it was painted in Furness Railway Indian red livery.

In 1974, it was bought by Paddy Smith, who returned its to LMS livery. He operated the engine on various enthusiast tours, including the Settle-Carlisle Line, the Cambrian Coast Express, the Crewe to Holyhead Line; and The Jacobite between Fort William and Mallaig, where it spent three seasons in the late 1980s. After the last season in Scotland, No. 45407 was returned to Carnforth, and then moved to the East Lancashire Railway to run out the last three years of its boiler certificate.[1]

In 1997, Ian Riley bought the engine, and had it overhauled at his railway engineering works, Riley and Son, Bury. The works included a new tender with greater water capacity, the fitting of air brake equipment to enable the engine to haul modern coaching stock. and the fitting of A.W.S. to comply with Railtrack’s modern Safety and Signaling requirements.[1]

The loco is based on the East Lancashire Railway at Bury, and was main-line registered until January 2018 following an overhaul in 2010. Around mid January she was moved by road to Ian Riley's workshop in Heywood where another overhaul was to be undertaken. It was also planned for 45407 to emerge following overhaul in the guise of scrapped sister 45157 The Glasgow Highlander for 2018 to mark 150 years since the founding of the Glasgow Highlanders (she last wore this identity in the early 2000s).

The locomotive made an appearance at the beginning of the 2005 black comedy movie Keeping Mum, and during the 1991 episode of 'The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge' by Agatha Christie starring David Suchet.[2]

45407 In action

Below are a set of photographs showing 45407 in action on heritage railways as well as at work on the mainline in the preservation era.

• 
  45407 passing through Todmorden, on the way to Blackburn in November 2008.
• 
  45407 approaching Summerseat Station in April 2009.
• 
  45407 The Lancashire Fusilier at Wakefield Kirkgate Station in August 2010.
• 
  45407 at Buxton in March 2018 while in the identity of scrapped sister no 45157 The Glasgow Highlander.

References

1. "No.45407". Riley and Son. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
2. The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge, LWT, 1991

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