Duchess of Hamilton is a preserved
steam locomotive built in September 1938 by the LMS Crewe Works and operated until February 1964. 6229 was built in 1938 at
Crewe as the tenth member of its class and the last in the second batch of five red streamliners, complete with gold speed cheat stripes (the original five 6220-4 having been given a unique Caledonian blue livery with silver stripes). In 1939 no. 6229 swapped identities with the first of the class
6220 Coronation and was sent to
North America with a specially-constructed
Coronation Scot train to appear at the
1939 New York World's Fair.
[1] There was therefore for a while a blue 6229
Duchess of Hamilton in the UK and a red 6220
Coronation in the US.
R.A. Riddlesdrove for most of the tour, owing to the illness of the assigned driver. The locomotive (though not its carriages) was shipped back from the US in 1942 after the outbreak of the
Second World War, and the identities of the locomotives were swapped back in 1943. The carriages returned in 1946.