When I last renewed my aquaintance with an LMS Class 5 locomotive it was with No.5428 on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and I occasioned to note that it was one of those to come from Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.Ltd. and thus but one delivery from the largest order for locomotives to be placed by a British railway company with a private builder at a time when most railways of any substance designed and built 'in house' in their own workshops. Sir William Armstrong had built up an industrial empire in Newcastle based on manufacturing and selling armaments, hydro-electric machinery
