Talk:Locomotives of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway

Re-organization of article

Several of the pre-grouping sections are large enough to warrant their own articles. Please discuss. Biscuittin (talk) 19:20, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

I am planning to start with "Ex-Caledonian Railway". Are there any objections? Biscuittin (talk) 19:23, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

I would say Go Ahead, but leave suitably-placed links to those articles.

The LMS inherited 10,313 steam locos, and built or bought over 4,300 after grouping. This article should really confine itself to locos built after 1923, but note that this definition means that some locos of pre-group design will be included, such as LMS 10434-74 (41 outstanding from LYR order, built 1923-25) and LMS 15260-9 (10 ordered by LMS to CR design, built 1925). --Redrose64 (talk) 20:36, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

I have created Locomotives of the Caledonian Railway. Biscuittin (talk) 19:38, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

And Locomotives of the Highland Railway. Biscuittin (talk) 21:57, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

North Staffordshire Railway

I have discovered that there is an existing article Locomotives of the North Staffordshire Railway but it had not been linked to this article. I have now linked it. Biscuittin (talk) 10:21, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

The NSR article contains a complete list of NSR locos. The LMS article contains a list of NSR locos transferred to the LMS. As these are different lists, I have not tried to merge them. Biscuittin (talk) 10:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Ah. This seems logical - the NSR will not have been alone in having withdrawn locos before 1923; perhaps only one or two of the really small companies will have managed to avoid withdrawing locos prior to grouping. Perhaps the LMS article should briefly summarise the inheritance, without going into detail. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:03, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, the current content is inconsistent, with some sections providing more information than others. Biscuittin (talk) 10:32, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Great locomotive cull

@Redrose64: So where should the link point to? All your reversion did was restore an unhelpful link to a section that doesn't exist. Maybe you could fix the problem?—ShelfSkewed Talk 13:28, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Preservation section

At the end of the Preservation section there is a single line stating that "A smaller number of pre-grouping locomotives inherited by the LMS have also been preserved". There is no indication where this information came from. Is it possible to identify the source and provide a link to it? Anotherbigal (talk) 08:31, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

I don't think it needs sourcing, there are plenty of examples such as: LMS No. 1000; LMS No. 5031; LMS No. 12322; LMS No. 14010; LMS No. 17916. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:10, 3 March 2022 (UTC)