London Midland & Scottish Railway 4-6-0 No. 44932 (4932)
Carnforth, Lancashire, UK 		Location: West Coast Railway Co.
Status: Operational
Posted: Oct 26, 2025 @ 11:10:10 by Russell Newman
The ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 44932, is back visiting the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway for the late Autumn and Winter month and will be hauling their Elf Explorer Trains this Christmas season as well as working their Mince Pie Specials into the New Year.
Posted: Jun 25, 2025 @ 12:06:42 by Russell Newman
The ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 44932, will be joining West Coast Railways other locomotives taking part in the Greatest Gathering at Litchurch Lane works in Derby as part of the Railway 200 celebrations from the 1st to 3rd of August 2025. To mark 200 years of opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and 200 years of the modern railway we all know and use today.
Posted: Dec 30, 2024 @ 09:12:37 by Russell Newman
With its festive duties at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway now finnished for the year, ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 44932, will be returing home to West Coast Railway Company’s depot at Carnforth in Lancashire for the winter and to await other work to come in 2025. If it will ever return to mainline railtour duties in 2025 given the current situation with central door locking not being fitted to West Coast Railway Company’s fleet of Mk1 Carriages is qustionable? But No. 44932 will be maintained and kept to mainline standards still for other work for the time being at leasted.
Posted: Sep 14, 2024 @ 09:09:24 by Russell Newman
The ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 44932, has been hired by Riley & Son Engineering Ltd. (owner of No. 45047 and No. 44871 and custonian of No. 45212) to go visit the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway for the first time during November and December 2024 to work their Elf Explorer Trains and other Christmas trains over the Christmas season into the New Year, while No. 45212 is on Polar Express runs this Christmas.
Posted: Aug 6, 2024 @ 11:08:12 by Russell Newman
Due to the lack of mainline work with the on going door locking issuse for West Coast Railway Company, for the first time ever the ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 44932, will visit the Severn Valley Railway for the very first time for their Autumn Steam Gala from the 19th and 22nd of September 2024. This will be the first time No. 44932 has visited another preserved railway since the 1990s having been formerly based at the Midland Railway - Butterley during its early preservation years before being sold to West Coast Railway Company in the 2000s.
Posted: Aug 10, 2022 @ 12:08:06 by Russell Newman
The ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 44932 has returned to steam again following completion of its overhaul at Carnforth, and has just undergone a light engine test run from Carnforth to Hellifield and back. More mainline test runs will follow before the locomotive returns for mainline railtour dutys.
Posted: Jul 15, 2016 @ 13:07:39 by Russell Newman
44923 is currently having a boiler overhaul being done and it might be back on the mainline next year.