Passenger or goods the 3P did it all

3P on passenger duty

Midland 3P

A maid of all work

The Wessy. London North Western Railway

Staniers streamliners

The first five locomotives, Nos. 6220–6224, were built in 1937 at Crewe. They were streamlined and painted Caledonian Railway blue with silver horizontal lines to match the Coronation Scot train they were built to haul. The streamlining is probably best described as reminiscent of an upside down bathtub and was fitted largely for publicity reasons. Stanier, the designer of the locomotives, felt that the added weight and difficulty in maintenance due to the streamlining was too high a price to pay for the actual benefits gained at high speed.

My thanks to Wikipedia for the above

LMS Streamliners

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Princess Coronation 1937 7P William Stanier 250 lbs sq in 4 16.25 x 28 ins 6 ft  9 ins 108 t  2 cwt (streamlined version) Tapered. Superheated Walschaerts 40,000 lbs

Princess Royal Coronation class Appraoching Shap

Princess Royal Coronation class

LMS Princess Royal Coronation

Bellow with roller bearings throughout

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 version of the LMS Princess Royal Class. Several examples were originally built as streamlined, though this was later removed. The non-streamlined locomotives were often referred to as Duchesses, though to enginemen they were often known asBig Lizzies.

They were the most powerful passenger steam locomotives ever to be built for the British railway network, estimated at 3300 horsepower and making them far more powerful than the diesel engines that replaced them.

My thanks to Wikipedia for the above