Description

Stanier Duchess class pacific, ‘Duchess of Atholl’, in British Railways blue livery, climbs Shap Bank in the late 1940s.

Duchess of Atholl entered service in 1938 in the striking LMS Crimson Lake livery as locomotive number 6231. The locomotive would go on to serve into the early 1960s under BR until it would be scrapped at Crewe in November 1963. During its time with the nationalised railway it would be numbered 46231 and the locomotive would wear three different liveries one of which being an experimental blue.