Editing LMS Coronation Class (section)

== Shed allocations ==

=== Overview ===
[[File:6233 Duchess of Sutherland Midland Railway Centre (5).jpg|thumb|right|The LMS's code for a locomotive's shed was displayed on an oval plate on the smokebox door. The code "1B", above, relates to Camden shed.]]

Initially all the locomotives were allocated to Camden shed in London (LMS designation 1B). By 1939 there were nineteen officially stationed there. This came to an abrupt end when war was declared in September of that year, as the Government had decreed that in such an event all Britain's largest locomotives would be mothballed for the duration. {{r|Baker|p=49}} Consequently, seven of the class were immediately dispatched to either Holyhead or to Rugby (via Manchester Longsight). Within weeks the stupidity of this policy was realised and the locomotives were returned to service. {{r|Baker|p=49}}

In 1940 some of the class were reallocated to Crewe North (5A) and Glasgow Polmadie (27A, 66A from 1950). As the numbers grew, Crewe North was generally the beneficiary, but in 1946 Carlisle Upperby (12B, 12A from 1958), received an initial allocation of six locomotives. At various times locomotives were also seconded to Liverpool Edge Hill (8A). A typical allocation of the 1950s was Camden 15, Crewe North 10, Polmadie 9 and Upperby 4.{{r|Jenkinson|loc=Summary of 'Duchess' 4-6-2 Allocation at Depots as at Autumn of the Years shown below}}

During the 1960s the installation of overhead electrification commenced between London Euston and both [[Liverpool Lime Street railway station|Liverpool Lime Street]] and Manchester Piccadilly. Phase 1 comprised electrification between Crewe and Liverpool and Manchester. Phase 2 involved the extension southwards from Crewe to London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BRB_YNR001.pdf|title=Your New Railway|date=1966|publisher=British Railways Board|pages=7–9}}</ref> The massive proportions of the ''Coronation Class'' resulted in their prohibition from operating under those wires. Camden's allocation was now run down (the remaining locomotives being transferred to nearby Willesden (1A)), whilst Polmadie's was dispensed with entirely. The bulk of the class was situated at either Crewe North or Carlisle, the Kingmoor shed (12A, 68A from 1958) now being used in addition to Upperby.

=== Table of shed allocations ===
The entire class saw service at the following sheds. The table lists the recorded allocations, but many temporary loans are not recorded – throughout the working life of the class, these may have been considerable. It also ignores the participation of No. 46236 in the Locomotive Exchange Trials of 1948, the transfer of No. 46225 to the Rugby Test Station for several months in 1955 and the secondment of Nos. 46237, 46254 and 46257 to the Western Region in 1955 and 1956.{{r|Baker|pp=76–200}}

There were wide variations in these histories. Six of the 1937–38 batches led a quiet life, being situated at Polmadie for the whole of their lives, apart from their initial spell at Camden. Others were moved from shed to shed for most of their lives, Nos. 6228, 6251 and 6252 being particularly well travelled.

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! LMS No.
! BR No.
! Name
! Camden
! Crewe-North
! Glasgow Polmadie
! Carlisle Upperby
! Carlisle K'moor
! Holyhead
! L'pool Speke Jct.
! L'pool Edge Hill
! M'chstr L'sight
! Rugby
! Willesden
|-
| 6220
| 46220
| ''Coronation''
| 1937–39
| 1958–61
| 1939–58
| 1961–63
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6221
| 46221
| ''Queen Elizabeth''
| 1937–39 <br/> 1959–60
| 1939 <br/> 1958–59 <br/> 1960–61
| 1939–58
| 1961 <br/> 1962–63
| 1961–62
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6222
| 46222
| ''Queen Mary''
| 1937–39
|
| 1939–63
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6223
| 46223
| ''Princess Alice''
| 1937–39
|
| 1939–63
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6224
| 46224
| ''Princess Alexandra''
| 1937–39
|
| 1939–63
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6225
| 46225
| ''Duchess of Gloucester''
| 1938–39 <br/> 1943–46 <br/> 1947–49 <br/> 1952
| 1940–43 <br/> 1946–47 <br/> 1949–52 <br/> 1952–59
|
| 1959–64
|
| 1939–40
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6226
| 46226
| ''Duchess of Norfolk''
| 1938–39 <br/> 1939–40 <br/> 1943–46 <br/> 1951
| 1940–43 <br/> 1956
|
| 1946–51 <br/> 1951–53 <br/> 1953–55 <br/> 1955–56 <br/> 1956–64
|
| 1939
| 1939
| 1953 <br/> 1955
|
|
|
|-
| 6227
| 46227
| ''Duchess of Devonshire''
| 1938–39 <br/> 1943–46 <br/> 1947
| 1940–43 <br/> 1947–48
| 1948–62
| 1946–47
|
| 1939–40
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6228
| 46228
| ''Duchess of Rutland''
| 1938–39 <br/> 1943–46 <br/> 1951
| 1940–43 <br/> 1957–59 <br/> 1964
|
| 1946–51 <br/> 1951–54 <br/> 1954–57 <br/> 1959–64
|
| 1939–40
|
| 1954
| 1939
| 1939
|
|-
| 6229
| 46229
| ''Duchess of Hamilton'' <br/> ''(In U.S.A.1939–42)''
| 1943–47 <br/> 1948–49 <br/> 1952–60
| 1938–39 <br/> 1942–43 <br/> 1947–48 <br/> 1949–50 <br/> 1951–52 <br/> 1960–61
|
| 1950–51
|
|
|
| 1961–64
|
|
|
|-
| 6230
| 46230
| ''Duchess of Buccleuch''
| 1938–40
|
| 1940–63
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6231
| 46231
| ''Duchess of Atholl''
| 1938–40
|
| 1940–62
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6232
| 46232
| ''Duchess of Montrose''
| 1938–40
|
| 1940–62
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6233
| 46233
| ''Duchess of Sutherland''
| 1938–44 <br/> 1960
| 1944–58 <br/> 1958–60
|
| 1958
|
|
|
| 1960–64
|
|
|
|-
| 6234
| 46234
| ''Duchess of Abercorn''
| 1938–43 <br/> 1959
| 1943–59
|
| 1959–63
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6235
| 46235
| ''City of Birmingham''
| 1939–44
| 1939 <br/> 1944–64
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1939
| 1939
|
|-
| 6236
| 46236
| ''City of Bradford''
| 1939 <br/> 1939–44 <br/> 1948 <br/> 1951–58
| 1944–1948 <br/> 1948–51
|
| 1958–61 <br/> 1961–62
| 1962–64
|
|
| 1961
|
|
|
|-
| 6237
| 46237
| ''City of Bristol''
| 1939 <br/> 1939–58
|
|
| 1958–61 <br/> 1962–64
| 1961–62
|
|
|
| 1939
| 1939
|
|-
| 6238
| 46238
| ''City of Carlisle''
| 1939–47 <br/> 1950 <br/> 1951
| 1939
|
| 1947–50 <br/> 1950–51 <br/> 1951–64
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6239
| 46239
| ''City of Chester''
| 1939 <br/> 1939–63
| 1964
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1963–64
|-
| 6240
| 46240
| ''City of Coventry''
| 1940–63
| 1940 <br/> 1964
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1963–64
|-
| 6241
| 46241
| ''City of Edinburgh''
| 1940–58
| 1940 <br/> 1958–61 <br/> 1964
|
|
|
|
|
| 1961–64
|
|
|
|-
| 6242
| 46242
| ''City of Glasgow''
| 1940–44 <br/> 1948–53 <br/> 1954–61
| 1953–54
| 1944–48 <br/> 1961–63
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6243
| 46243
| ''City of Lancaster''
| 1940–48 <br/> 1960–61
| 1948–58 <br/> 1958–60
|
| 1958
|
|
|
| 1948 <br/> 1961–64
|
|
|
|-
| 6244
| 46244
| ''City of Leeds (to 1941)'' <br/> ''King George VI''
| 1940–58
|
|
| 1958–61
| 1961–64
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6245
| 46245
| ''City of London''
| 1943–63
| 1964
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1963–64
|-
| 6246
| 46246
| ''City of Manchester''
| 1943–48 <br/> 1960–63
| 1948–60
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6247
| 46247
| ''City of Liverpool''
| 1943–61
|
|
|
| 1961–63
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6248
| 46248
| ''City of Leeds''
| 1943–48 <br/> 1960 <br/> 1960
| 1948–54 <br/> 1954–60 <br/> 1960 <br/> 1960–64
|
| 1954
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6249
| 46249
| ''City of Sheffield''
| 1949–54
| 1944 <br/> 1954–61
| 1944–46 <br/> 1961–63
| 1946–49
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6250
| 46250
| ''City of Lichfield''
| 1949–58
| 1944
| 1944–46
| 1946–49 <br/> 1958–64
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6251
| 46251
| ''City of Nottingham''
| 1948 <br/> 1949 <br/> 1950 <br/> 1954
| 1944 <br/> 1948–49 <br/> 1956–57 <br/> 1957–64
| 1944–46
| 1946–48 <br/> 1949–50 <br/> 1950–54 <br/> 1955 <br/> 1956 <br/> 1957
|
|
|
| 1948 <br/> 1954–55 <br/> 1955–56
|
|
|
|-
| 6252
| 46252
| ''City of Leicester''
| 1950 <br/> 1951 <br/> 1951–52 <br/> 1952 <br/> 1962–63
| 1944–50 <br/> 1950–51 <br/> 1951 <br/> 1952 <br/> 1952–53 <br/> 1953–56 <br/> 1956–60
|
| 1953 <br/> 1956 <br/> 1960–61
| 1961–62
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6253
| 46253
| ''City of St. Albans''
| 1946–49 <br/> 1949 <br/> 1950 <br/> 1952–57
| 1952 <br/> 1957–63
|
| 1949 <br/> 1949–50 <br/> 1950–52
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6254
| 46254
| ''City of Stoke-on-Trent''
| 1946–49 <br/> 1953–60
| 1952–53 <br/> 1960–64
|
| 1949–52 <br/> 1953
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6255
| 46255
| ''City of Hereford''
| 1946–48 <br/> 1953
| 1952
|
| 1948–52 <br/> 1953 <br/> 1953–61
| 1961–64
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 6256
| 46256
| ''Sir William A. Stanier F.R.S.''
| 1948–59 <br/> 1960
| 1947–48 <br/> 1960–64
|
| 1959–60
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| Post LMS
| 46257
| ''City of Salford''
| 1948–59 <br/> 1960
| 1947–48 <br/> 1960–64
|
| 1959–60
|
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|}