The Nene Valley Railway has announced that Ex-LMS Jubilee No. 45596 Bahamas will be making a visit later this year.

Bahamas will be visiting the Peterborough-based railway in August 2021.

45596’s visit is thanks to an agreement between the Nene Valley Railway and the Bahamas Locomotive Society.

Whilst at the Nene Valley Railway, 45596 Bahamas will be available for use on driver experience courses, fish and chip trains and a Jubilee 1950s Bank Holiday Weekend.

More information on the visit of Bahamas will be made available on the NVR website soon.

A brief history of 45596 Bahamas

45596 Bahamas was built in 1934 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow for the London Midland & Scottish Railway. 45596 was designed by Sir William Stanier and entered service in 1935. 45596 is the only ‘double chimney’ Jubilee locomotive after being fitted with it in 1961 as part of a trial.

In 1967, Bahamas was purchased from British Railways for preservation by the Bahamas Locomotive Society. After which, it was sent to the Hunslet Engine Company in Leeds for repairs and repainted into LMS Crimson Lake livery.

The BLS secured the lease of a section of track to Dinting Railway Station near Glossop where it established the Dinting Railway Museum.

In 1994, the mainline ticket for 45596 Bahamas expired, with the locomotive spending the next three years running on heritage railways until its 10-year boiler ticket expired in 1997.

For the next 15 years, the locomotive moved between storage and static displays at the KWVR at Ingrow West and Oxenhope, as well as the National Railway Museum in York.

A Heritage Lottery Fund application in 2012 was successful and allowed an overhaul to be completed. In September 2018, 45596 Bahamas was fully restored and in steam at the Tyseley Locomotive Works Open Day.

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