LMS Jubilee Class 5596 Bahamas

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45596 Bahamas at Oxenhope on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, 1995. Note the double chimney which was fitted in 1961.

Bahamas' nameplate.

London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Jubilee Class 5596 (BR number 45596) Bahamas is a preserved British steam locomotive.

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5596 was built in 1935 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow. She was named Bahamas in 1936 after the Bahamas, which were then part of the British Empire. After nationalisation in 1948, Bahamas was renumbered 45596. In 1961 she was unusually fitted with a double blastpipe and chimney. She was withdrawn in 1966 but subsequently preserved.