Presenting the LMS 9MT Royal Navies! These Mikados were the mixed traffic siblings of the Princess Royal pacifics, developing over 43,000lbs of tractive effort. Equally at home on Express passenger or Express Goods, this class served as an answer to the GWR's 47XX Class and the LNER's P1 and P2 Classes.
9901 Diamond- was initially preserved in 1962 as a static display at a Holiday Camp, but these days is owned by The Rose Line.
9902 Defender-Purchased directly from British Railways in 1963 by the group that would later buy and operate The Rose Line.
49905 Fame-Purchased for the Sodor Railway Museum in Suddery upon withdrawal in 1961
49903 Greyhound-was preserved by mere happenstance. She ended her final allocation in 1964 at the sheds eventually purchased by Gywneth Amari to become the London New Eastern Railway. When she was mean to be taken to the scrapyard, it was found her central pistons had seized, and the engine sent to her drag her away could not move the once might beheamoth. She was left in the out of use siding, and largely forgotten. When it came time to hand over the line in 1966, she was rediscovered. Rather than be bother with the removal of the massive engine, British Railway offered her to Gywneth Amari for scrap price. Amari accepted, and had the mighty engine restored.
49900 Griffin-was preserved as part of the National Collection when withdrawn in 1963
49906 Illustrious-purchased by the North Western in 1963, where she remains in service.
9904 Indomitable-under private ownership by the Duke of Sodor, purchased directly from British Railway in 1963.
49908 Harvestor-was bought by John Cameron in 1967 when previous preservation attempt was to fail, Harvestor was overhualed put into service on the Lochty Preservation Railway
9910 Ajax-was purchased straight from British Railways in May 1963 by the Royal Navy Locomotive Society, a off shoot of the Princess Elizabeth locomotive Society.
49911 Erne-When withdrawn in 1961, it was donated to the Krestaen Railway Museum in an attempt to improve relations between the Chester and Holyhead Railway and British Railways.
C9 (9909) Ithuriel-was given to the Denbigh and Wrexham Railway in 1960 as part of a settlement between the railway and British Railways.
49907 Hurricane-ran by her crew onto Chester and Holyhead metals in 1964 despite orders for withdrawl. Eventually, British Railways agreed to allow the C&HR to purchase the engine.
