LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45407

LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' is a LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 locomotive engine built at Armstrong Whitworth in 1937. Owned by railway engineering company Riley and Son, it is one of 18 surviving Black 5 locomotives.

No. 45407 was built by Armstrong Whitworth of Scotswood, Newcastle, in 1937 for the London Midland and Scottish Railway. It was works No. 1462, one of 226 locomotives which formed the largest order ever placed with a private builder by a British railway company, worth £2.7 million.

It was outshopped initially to Kettering, and then worked along the Midland Main Line. In the late 1960s the engine was moved between various sheds ending up at in 1968. During its working life no. 45407 was based at the following sheds:

One of the final Black 5s in operation, 45407 was withdrawn on 4 August 1968. Dr Peter Beet, the co-founder of Steamtown Carnforth, with Sir Bill McAlpine, and business partner David Davis, visited to choose a locomotive to save, selecting No. 45407. Davis bought the locomotive for £3,300, and it became part of the Steamtown collection, where for some time it was painted in Furness Railway Indian red livery.

In 1974, it was bought by Paddy Smith, who returned it to LMS livery. He operated the engine on various enthusiast tours, including the Settle-Carlisle Line, the Cambrian Coast Express, the Crewe to Holyhead Line; and The Jacobite between Fort William and Mallaig, where it spent three seasons in the late 1980s. After the last season in Scotland, No. 45407 was returned to Carnforth, and then moved to the East Lancashire Railway to run out the last three years of its boiler certificate.

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