The RCTS book 'The LMS Patriot 4-6-0s', their latest book in their Locomotives of the LMS series, will be released this weekend and will be available exclusively from The LMS-Patriot Project at Crewe Heritage Centre on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th November. On Saturday the author John Jennison will be available to sign copies. Costing £24.95 the book is casebound, 224 pages with 141 mono photos and 18 colour illustrations.

Also available will be our own pictorial book 'The Patriots, Volume 1, Nos. 45500-45525' with author Pete Sikes available to sign copies, our book is priced at £18.95.

In preparation for the upcoming Open Weekend on 10th/11th November the trial fitting of our new boiler and firebox commenced today with our engineering team and staff of HBSS carrying out a slick and professional operation. For a few 'taster' images of today's action see our Facebook page.

Eighty years ago on the 16th October 1938 Sir Henry Fowler passed away.

Why not make a donation to the project in memory of the man who's name will be forever linked with The LMS and of course the Patriot Class.

The LMS-Patriot Project is staging an exhibition about Remembrance Engines, the VC recipients and the Railways at Crewe Heritage Centre. The 'Rails and Remembrance' exhibition opened at the beginning of September and runs until the end of 2018. A specially produced video tells the story of the role railways played during the Great War and how several Remembrance engines were built as a memorial to the employees of Railway Companies who gave their lives during the Great War. The exhibition brings the story to the present day with the creation of the new National Memorial Engine ’The Unknown Warrior’ which is being built to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice