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45596 BAHAMAS LMS 5596

LMS/BR Class 6P Jubilee Class 4-6-0

[Author © Dr WP Brown PhD (plus 'DocsPics' help from AI these days), page updated September 25th 2025]

45596 BAHAMAS was built by the London Midland and Scottish Railway to a design by Sir William A. Stanier, chief locomotive engineer of the LMS.

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See also 45699 GALATEA 

and 45690 LEANDER

 Jubilee Class 45596 BAHAMAS spent most of its working life working passenger trains from Liverpool Lime Street station as it was allocated to Edge Hill depot. I used to see 45596 regularly working Liverpool - Leeds - Newcastle trains in the late 1950s and early 1960s passing through Whiston and Rainhill. See Nostalgia - Rainhill Station, Prescot Station & Whiston

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway - Oxenhope display shed:  Stanier designed 6P Jubilee LMS Class 4-6-0 express passenger locomotive 45596 BAHAMAS (LMS 5596 BAHAMAS, built by the North British Locomotive Company in 1935). Its carrying the headboard of the BAHAMAS LOCOMOTIVE SOCIETY and is fitted with a double chimney

Technical detail specifications of locomotive Jubilee Class 45596: Boiler pressure of 45596: 225 lbf/sq.in., Weight of 45596: loco 75.6 tons, tender 53.7 tons, Wheel diameter of 45596: 3' 3½'', 6' 9", Valve gear of 45596: Walschaerts piston valves, Cylinders (diameter x stroke) of 45596: 17" x 26" (3), Tractive effort of 45596: 26610 lbf., BR Power classification of 45596: Class 6P (was 5XP)

45596 BAHAMAS at Oxenhope, its unusual for a Jubilee Class locomotive to be fitted with a double chimney.

45596 BAHAMAS on the turntable of York NRM. It is hoping that it will return to full operation in 2017?

In 1961 45596 BAHAMAS was unusually fitted with a double blastpipe and chimney,

45596 BAHAMAS in York NRM

Some old B & W pictures of Jubilee Class locomotives photographed at Derby and Crewe on the railways of the London Midland Region in the 1960s

Jubilee Class 45685 BARFLEUR at Derby station in 1963 (image © Paul Gray, 2013)

Jubilee Class 45554 ONTARIO at Crewe Sheds in 1963 (image © Paul Gray, 2013)

Jubilee Class 45555 QUEBEC at Crewe Sheds in 1963, shed code 5B Crewe South locomotive depot (image © Paul Gray, 2013)

Jubilee Class 45557 NEW BRUNSWICK at Derby station in 1963, shed code 17B Burton-on-Trent locomotive depot (image © Paul Gray, 2013)

Jubilee Class 45560 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND at Crewe Sheds, shed code 5A Crewe North locomotive depot (image © Paul Gray, 2013)

Jubilee Class 45585 HYDERABAD at Derby station in 1963 (image © Paul Gray, 2013)

Jubilee Class 45612 JAMAICA in Derby sheds in 1963, shed code 17A Derby locomotive depot (image © Paul Gray, 2013)

Jubilee Class 45622 NYASALAND at Derby in 1963 (image © Paul Gray, 2013)

SEE ALSO

BR 45690 LEANDER LMS 5690 BR Class 6P Jubilee Class 4-6-0

BR 45699 GALATEA LMS 5699 BR Class 6P Jubilee Class 4-6-0

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