The Duchess of Hamilton was one of the London Midland and Scottish Railway's streamlined Coronation Class Pacifics, built at Crewe in 1938 and named after the wife of the 14th Duke of Hamilton. She was temporarily shipped to the United States in 1939 for exhibition on the New York World's Fair tour, where she ran as "Empress of Britain" — the LMS having lent the locomotive before hostilities made her retrieval complicated. Withdrawn in 1964, she was preserved at the National Railway Museum in York, where a full cosmetic restoration returned her to streamlined condition in the 1980s.
The Duchess of Hamilton was one of the London Midland and Scottish Railway's streamlined Coronation Class Pacifics, built at Crewe in 1938 and named after the wife of the 14th Duke of Hamilton. She was temporarily shipped to the United States in 1939 for exhibition on the New York World's Fair tour, where she ran as "Empress of Britain" — the LMS having lent the locomotive before hostilities made her retrieval complicated. Withdrawn in 1964, she was preserved at the National Railway Museum in York, where a full cosmetic restoration returned her to streamlined condition in the 1980s.