Duchess

Duchess is a kind, warmhearted and caring LMS express engine who looks after the principle passenger trains along the LMS parts of the line.

History
Duchess is one of the oldest engines on the line built in 1928 and serves as Newton Abbot's primary express locomotive pulling passengers round the Midland regions.

Personality
Duchess is a caring, kind-hearted and gentle engine who acts as a mother figure towards the other engines, most notably Caitlyn, when she first arrives. She tolerates no-nonsense from engines of the likes of Louise and Lizzie.

Class
Duchess is an LMS 2P 4-4-0 express locomotive.

The LMS 2P's were modified versipns of the Midland Railway 483 class with modified fittings and reduced boiler mountings, most of them were built at the Derby railway works. They, like the 483 class, were ment for light passenger work.

between the years 1954 and 1962 the 2P's were withdrawn and none suvived into preservation.