LMS Royal Scot Class 6100 Royal Scot

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A man reads the commemorative nameplate of 46100 Royal Scot as she stands in Bristol Temple Meads station, 1962.

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6100 Royal Scot inside Bressingham Steam Museum, preserved in inauthentic (for its condition) LMS crimson lake livery.

The nameplate of 6100 Royal Scot with the text commemorating its North American tour.

London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Royal Scot Class 6100 (British Railways' number 46100) Royal Scot is a preserved British steam locomotive.

Construction

The original 6100 was the first of its class, built in 1927 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow. It was named Royal Scot after the Royal Scots. This however is not the locomotive that is preserved.

North American tour

In 1933, 6152 The King's Dragoon Guardsman and 6100 swapped identities permanently. 6152 had been built at Derby in 1930. The new Royal Scot was sent to the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933 and toured Canada and the United States with a train of typical LMS carriages.

It was given a special commemorative plates that sit below its nameplates which read:

This locomotive with the Royal Scot train was exhibited at the Century of Progress
Exposition Chicago 1933, and made a tour of the Dominion of Canada and the United
States of America. The engine and train covered 11,194 miles over the railroads
of the North American continent and was inspected by 3,021,601 people.
W. Gilbertson - Driver	T. Blackett - Fireman
J. Jackson - Fireman	W.C. Woods - Fitter

But that was not the locomotive that is preserved either...

Rebuilding

6100 was renumbered 46100 by British Railways after nationalisation in 1948. In 1950 46100 was rebuilt with a 2A tapered boiler, and the words "Before conversion" were added to its nameplates. It became a markedly different engine.

46100 was withdrawn in 1962.

Preservation

46100 was bought by Billy Butlin of Butlin's holiday camps after withdrawal and after cosmetic restoration at Crewe, was plinthed at Skegness. It was painted in LMS crimson lake livery, which although it was the original livery it received, it did not carry it after being rebuilt (only one rebuilt Royal Scot ever carried LMS crimson lake livery and that was 6170 Royal British Legion). 6100 arrived in Skegness at 18 July 1963 piped in by pipers from the 1st Bn, The Royal Scots.

6100 left Skegness for the Bressingham Steam Museum on 16 March 1971 and was returned to steam in 1972. It ran until 1978 when it became a static exhibit again. It was sold by Butlin's to Bressingham in May 1989.

6100 is one of two preserved rebuilt Royal Scots, the other being 6115 Scots Guardsman.

External links

• Railuk database
• Preserved locomotive database