The Royal Scot Locomotive and General Trust (RSL>) is a charitable trust set up in 2009, to enable ownership and restoration to mainline running condition of the

London Midland and Scottish Railway The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally ...

Royal Scot Class locomotive No. 6100 ''Royal Scot''. The trust has since been expanded and now owns a number of mainline locomotives in various states of repair, most of which are associated with the Trust's founder,

Jeremy Hosking Jeremy John Hosking (born 20 July 1958) is a British businessman and political donor. Ranked number 351 in the Sunday Times Rich List 2019, with a net worth of £375 million, he is a shareholder in Crystal Palace F.C. and a noted railway e ...

. Furthermore, a group of companies including Locomotive Services (LSL) has been set up to encompass repair, maintenance of operation for RSL> and other assets.

History

The RSL> Ltd was formed in 2009 to protect for the long term, steam locomotives capable of hauling passenger trains on both the main line and

heritage railway A heritage railway or heritage railroad (US usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) i ...

s. Set up to acquire locomotive No. 6100 ''Royal Scot'', the Trust became a registered

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in late 2011 when it acquired

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

4-6-0

GWR 6000 Class The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class or King Class is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotives designed for express passenger work and introduced in 1927. They were the largest locomotives built by the GWR, apart from the unique Pacific ( ''The ...

No. 6024 ''King Edward I''. The Trust's stated intent is to have representative locomotives from the following railway companies: *

* Southern Railway *

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British ...

RSL> locomotives are maintained to mainline operating standards and are operated on the mainline railways of the UK, in addition to preserved railways by Locomotive Services.

Fleet

The fleet is operated by Locomotive Services. File:Royal Scot attacking Shap.JPG, Royal Scot climbing Shap in April 2016 for the first time since her withdrawal in 1962 File:Britannia 70000.jpg, 7MT Britannia in BR black. File:Hugh llewelyn 70000 (6238584828).jpg, 70000 7MT Britannia in BR black.

References

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External links

RSL> websiteIcons Of Steam Website
- Locomotive Services trading website with links to associated companies and trusts Heritage railways in the United Kingdom Clubs and societies in London Transport charities based in the United Kingdom