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Ex-LMS 5XP 4-6-0 Jubilee Class No 45684 'Jutland' is seen again, this time in the marshalling yards

Ex-LMS 5XP 4-6-0 Jubilee Class No 45684 'Jutland' is seen again, this time in the marshalling yards. The remaining five of Sir Henry Fowler's Patriot class locomotives on order, No 5552 to No 5557, were reallocated by Crewe to be built as William Stanier's Jubilee class. From a class eventually numbering 191 locomotives, 113 were ordered straight from the drawing board. Adopting the GWR's standard of a moderate degree of superheating they proved initially to be a disappointment being often left them short of steam. Considerable effort was invested in re-draughting the boiler with changes also being carried out to the blastpipe and chimney dimensions all of which helped to transform them. Designed for main line passenger work the 191 locomotives were built between 1934 and 1936 being built concurrently with the LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0.

On 29th April 1935 No 5552, the first of the class, permanently swapped identities with No 5642 which had been named 'Silver Jubilee' on 19th April 1935 in recognition of the Silver Jubilee of King George V on 6 May of that year. This change of identity resulted in the name 'Jubilee' to being given the rest of the class. Previously, from summer 1934, they had been known as the 'Red Staniers' after the crimson livery they wore, in order to distinguish them from the 'Black Staniers' better known to day as 'Black Fives'. The power classification was 5XP, in common with the earlier Patriot class. In January 1951 under the authority of British Railways, the classification was revised to 6P; this was revised again to 6P5F in November 1955, but the latter change was not applied to the locomotives' cabsides, which continued to show 6P. The two rebuilt locomotives No 5735 'Comet' and No 5736 'Phoenix' were reclassified 6P in July 1943, and were revised to 7P in 1951 at the same time as the original locomotives were reclassified.

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