Unloading one of the traction motors. // Credit: Bernard Caddy London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Nos. 10000 and 10001 were the forerunners of many current British mainline diesel locomotives.

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Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). Originally named after the Caribbean islands, the locomotive became a workhorse of Britain’s railway network before its preservation in the late 1960s.