What was the operator of LMS Fowler Class 3F between Sep 1970 and Feb 1975?
LMS Fowler Class 3F The London Midland and Scottish Railway ( LMS ) Fowler 3F is a class of steam locomotive , often known as Jinty . They represent the ultimate development of the Midland Railways six-coupled tank engines . They could reach speeds of up to 60 mph ( 97 km/h ) . Introduction . Design of this class was based on rebuilds by Henry Fowler of the Midland Railway 2441 Class introduced in 1899 by Samuel Waite Johnson . These rebuilds featured a Belpaire firebox and improved cab . 422 Jinties were built between 1924 and 1931 ; this class was just one of the Midland designs used on an ongoing basis by the LMS . The locomotives were built by the ex-L&YR Horwich Works and the private firms Bagnalls , Beardmores , Hunslet , North British and the Vulcan Foundry . Details . When new , they were numbered 7100–7149 , 16400–16764 . Numbers 7150–7156 were added when the LMS absorbed the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway locomotives in 1930 . In the 1934 LMS renumbering scheme , the locomotives were assigned the series 7260–7681 . On the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 they were initially chosen as the standard shunting locomotive for the War Department , but later the more modern Hunslet Austerity was chosen in preference . Nevertheless , eight were dispatched to France before its fall in 1940 , and only five returned in 1948 . Two , 7456 and 7553 , were converted to the Irish broad gauge in 1944 and 1945 for use on Northern Counties Committee lines in Northern Ireland , becoming the NCC Class Y , and numbered 18 and 19 . A total of 412 thus entered British Railways stock in 1948 , rising to 417 by the end of the year . British Railways numbers were the LMS numbers prefixed with 4 . Numbers 47477 , 47478 , 47479 , 47480 , 47481 , 47655 and 47681 were fitted for push-pull train working . Withdrawal . The first withdrawals started in 1959 and by 1964 half had been withdrawn . The final five survived until 1967 , with a further one , 47445 continuing with the National Coal Board . Preservation . Thanks to their large numbers , renowned performance and late withdrawals , nine of these engines have been preserved , along with a spare set of frames and a boiler ( from 47564 ) . Many were restored within a few years of leaving the scrap heap , and most have a further working life ahead of them . All have steamed in preservation , with the exception of 47445 . One member of the class has operated on the main line in preservation . This was 7298/47298 , which took part during the Rainhill celebrations in 1980 when it hauled a number of Steamport residents from the museum in Southport to Rainhill and also took part in the cavalcade . Owned by Ian Riley , in February 2017 it was undergoing its ten-yearly overhaul and was expected to return to operation in a couple of years . Locations and condition are shown below ( current numbers in bold ) : In fiction . An engine of this type can be seen in the Rev . W . Awdrys The Railway Series book The Eight Famous Engines . The characters name was Jinty , and came from the Other Railway ( aka British Railways ) to help out when the main engines went on a journey to England . In the videogame Transport Tycoon of Chris Sawyer , the Jinty is offered as the cheapest and most basic engine of the game . Models . An OO gauge model of the Class 3F was first produced by Tri-ang in 1952 and production continued after the company became Hornby Railways in the 1970s . Hornby released a retooled version in 1978 with better detailing and continue to produce that model for their Railroad range . In the 2000s Bachmann Branchline released a more detailed OO model . In N gauge Graham Farish produced a model as a GP Tank in various liveries including some of other railway companies before later tooling an accurate Jinty model . In O gauge and Gauge 1 Bachmann Brassworks produce an example . In O gauge , Connoisseur Models produces an etched brass kit . In HO ( 3.5 mm ) scale Firedrake Productions produced a small run of 20 kits . Darstaed , a model train company in Great Britain , produced O gauge tintype models of the LMS Fowler Class 3F , affectionately referring to them by the nickname of Jinty Dapol has produced a Jinty for the O gauge market which was released in September 2017 External links . - LMS Jinty at Spa Valley Railway - 28 April 2004 - Photo gallery