page_title: LMS Patriot Class 5551 The Unknown Warrior
section_title: Name, number and liveries
hierarchical_section_title: LMS Patriot Class 5551 The Unknown Warrior / Replica / Name, number and liveries
caption_attribution_description: English: 5551's drivers side cabside painted in its former LMS colours of crimson lake with its 4 digit LMS number of 5551 instead of the 5 digit BR number.
context_page_description: No.5551 The Unknown Warrior is a replica LMS Patriot Class steam locomotive which is under construction at the in the Midland Railway – Butterley's West Shed.
  The locomotive is a replica of the final 'Patriot' class locomotive to be built, No.5551. The original locomotive was built in May 1934, and withdrawn in June 1962. Unlike the original engine, which never received a name, the replica will be named "The Unknown Warrior"; the name was chosen by public poll.
  All of the original un-rebuilt LMS Patriot Class locomotives were withdrawn by November 1962 and the whole class was withdrawn by December 1965 with none of the engines surviving into preservation.
context_section_description: The original 5551/45551 never carried a name during its career under LMS & BR ownership, a competition was set up to choose a name for the new engine with examples of nameplates being: Patriot, Hero, Remembrance, Wilfred Owen, British Legion and The Falklands. Alongside names based on regiments, the military & war heroes there were other names entered into the competition which included: Henry Fowler, Winston Churchill, Sir Edward Elgar, Fred Dibnah, Robert Riddles, Baby Scot (nickname for class), Jack Mills (Great Train Robbery), Crewe & Llangollen.
  Following a public vote to decide on the engines' name, the engine was named "The Unknown Warrior", after the tomb in London which holds an unidentified soldier who was killed on the battlefront during the First World War. It was also decided for the engine to carry the Royal British Legion's crest above its nameplates. Following a request by the RBL their crest had to be removed from the engine, a replacement crest was unveiled during a recent event in Crewe.
  The liveries that the original Patriots wore included: LMS Crimson Lake, LMS Black, BR Black & BR Green. For a while during the locomotive's construction, the engine wore crimson lake on the left side of its cab and BR Green on the right, this being to give an idea to the public of what it would look like in either livery when completed and running. It was announced in November 2016 during the Patriot Group's annual meeting at Crewe Heritage Centre that the first livery that "The Unknown Warrior" would wear on completion would be LMS Crimson Lake, with the three remaining liveries applied at later dates.
caption: 5551's drivers side cabside painted in its former LMS colours of crimson lake.
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