LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Castle Bromwich Station: mrcb31

LMS 4-6-0 No 6100 'The Royal Scot', originally No 6152 'The Kings Dragoon Guardsman', at the British Industrial Fair which was located adjacent to the station. The bell above the buffer beam was presented to the locomotive during its tour of the USA as part of the Ohio & Baltimore Railway's celebration. 1933

Number 6100 was built in June 1930 at Derby Works and switched identities with No 6152 (being in the shops for maintenance) to take part in the celebrations and tour of the USA. Neither locomotive reverted to their original numbers retaining their adopted identities for life. Therefore the original 6100 later carried the BR running number of 46152 and was withdrawn from Carlisle in April 1965 and scrapped by Motherwell Machinery & Scrap Co at their Inshaw Works in July of the same year.

The replacement No 6100 was built as No 6152 in August 1927 by North British Locomotive Company. In its new identity it carried the BR running number 46100 and was withdrawn in October 1962 from Nottingham (Midland) shed to be preserved.

Both locomotives were rebuilt by Stanier and classified as 'converted' locomotives, an accountancy practice that enabled the LMS to write off 100% of the cost against its profit for the current year. A new locomotive would be treated by the taxman as capital expenditure meaning the cost would be written off over many years thereby increasing the amount of tax paid in the current year.

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