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A detailed history of the LMS ‘Royal Scots’ 4-6-0s
by John Jennison. Published by the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society. ISBN 978-0-99349808-7-3. 258pp hardback. £29.50.
This is the latest production in the RCTS’s ‘Locomotives of the LMS Series’ and was there a more influential class to be the subject of it. The LMS at the 1923 grouping was woefully ill-equipped to provide for the challenges of its principal West Coast route by the locomotives it inherited from its constituents and in comparison with others of the ‘Big Four’. The loan of a GWR ‘Castle’ in 1926 and its outstanding performance paved the