London Midland & Scottish Railway 4-6-0 No. 44806 (4806)
Grosmont, Yorkshire, UK 		Location: North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Status: Operational
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Posted: Dec 29, 2024 @ 11:12:02 by Russell Newman
This is the history and insite of ex LMS Black Five No. 44806, No. 44806 or No. 4806 its LMS number was built in 1944 at Derby Works, and had spent most of its working life in the Midlands and Northwest of the UK, having been first shedded at Toton Depot from 1944. Its last shed on BR (British Railways) was at Lostock Hall from April 1968. No. 44806 is another end of steam survivor from 1968, as it had finnished its working days with BR having been used as station pilot at Preston as its final dutiess in August that year. No. 44806 was bought by the late Kenneth Aldcroft and was preserved at Carnforth Motive Power Depot, then operating as Steamtown Carnforth, and for a time it became a Green Five!! An odd livery for a Black Five then. In 1973 No. 44806 was moved to the then newly opened Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway, but was not idea for the line being too big for their operations and with basic facilities then. During its short time at the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway it received the name "Magpie" after the ITV Childrens Show of the same name which No. 44806 was featured in it then. In 1974 No. 44806 was moved to the now long closed Steamport Southport Centre where it spent some time in storage there, but in the 1990s it moved to the Llangollen Railway where it ran from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2013. In 2014 No. 44806 was sold and was moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway where it ran until it was withdrawn for another overhaul in 2018. In 2020 it was sold again to Peter Best a long-time benefactor to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and returned it to steam again in 2023 and since then No. 44806 is a popular member to the running fleet at the railway.
Posted: Dec 12, 2023 @ 15:12:39 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 44806, is now completed and the locomotive is back operational again, and has started testing and running in trials before entering service at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in 2024.
Posted: Oct 24, 2023 @ 11:10:05 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 44806 is in its final stages of completion and the locomotive could be back in traffic at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway during the winter months of 2023 or 2024?
Posted: Dec 20, 2022 @ 14:12:34 by Russell Newman
The boiler of ex LMS Black Five No. 44806 is on its way back to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway to be returned to the mainframes of the locomotive having had its overhaul been completed at Riley & Sons Engineering in Bury.
Posted: Feb 18, 2021 @ 10:02:55 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on ex LMS Black Five No. 44806 is pregressing as its boiler has been sent to Riley & Sons Engineering in Bury for work on it and the chassis are being worked on at Grosmont with the first part of the bogie overhaul completed as well as repairing the axle boxes. It is hoped that No. 44806 will return to service on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in the Spring or Summer of 2023.
Posted: Feb 15, 2020 @ 09:02:52 by Russell Newman
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway has sold ex LMS Black Five No. 44806 to locomotive owner and long-time benefactor to the line Peter Best to secure the locomotive’s future at the Moors line. Work will immediately instigate on overhauling the locomotive off site to return 44806 to traffic.
Posted: Dec 4, 2017 @ 14:12:36 by Russell Newman
It seems that 44806 is still in service but only for a few weeks over the Christmas season till New Years Day 2018.
Posted: Nov 3, 2017 @ 10:11:09 by Russell Newman
LMS Black 5 No. 44806 has now been withdrawn from service to under go its 10 year overhaul at Grosmont shed.
Posted: Apr 12, 2014 @ 12:04:04 by Steve Frost
The primary photo is from long ago when the loco was based at the Lakeside Railway which had, at the time a policy of presenting their locos in non-authentic paint schemes to represent constituent railways of the London Midland and Scottish Railway as well as some non-authentic British Railways liveries.

In this case the engine is seen in British Railways green. This class was always painted black, their nickname was universally 'Black Fives', from their power classification, five and their colour. At the time it carried the name 'Magpie' from the childrens' television programme of the same name.

Now on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, it had been until very recently a resident at Llangollen where it carried the name 'Kenneth Aldcrof't, applied to mark 35 years of preservation by him. On his death the loco passed to his daughter, who later sold the loco to the NYMR.