THE story of the LMS ‘Royal Scots’ is almost a tale of two different classes – the original, parallel boiler engines and their rebuilding from 1943 onwards with taper boilers, which to all intents and purposes were new engines.
The two are linked by the ill-fated high-pressure locomotive from 1929in 1935. The life and duties of the class were recorded throughout their history in the RCTS house magazine
