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Rebuilt "Claughton" No. 5953 from a contemporary commercial postcard.

A very warm welcome to the LMS Society Web site, especially if this is your first visit. And lest there should be any possible doubt as to what we are all about, the heading picture should make it clear that our subject is railways, not the Local Management of Schools nor any other activity which may use the initial letters of what was, in its time, both Britain's and the world's largest privately owned railway company in terms of quoted stock market value.

On the next few pages, we try to tell you something about both the company itself and how our Society has tried to keep its memory fresh in mind since we started out in 1963. As I write (late 2002), the site is still new and we expect it both to grow and to change in the fullness of time, so we hope you will keep coming back to see what is happening.

By way of starters, we include at this stage a summary of the company itself including some interesting statistics and a rather more extended account of how the Society itself works.

Although the site will not function as a "chat line" (our members are usually far too busy conducting research!), we have always tried to help those who are seeking information about this fascinating railway and would welcome constructive suggestions as to how this site may be developed so as best to enhance this process - indeed that was the prime reason for deciding to launch it in the first place. Various contact names and addresses &c will be found throughout our pages and all we ask is that if you wish to get in touch, you make your queries as specific as possible; and do please extend the courtesy of sending two stamped envelopes if you want a personal reply - full details of this facility will be found in later pages. We may even try to incorporate a "Question and Answer" page on the site if questions seem to be of broader relevance.

Meantime, enjoy your visit.

David Jenkinson
Late President, LMS Society

(David died in April 2004 - a personal appreciation of him written by his longstanding coauthor on LMS loco matters, Bob Essery, can be found on the following link David Jenkinson - an appreciation)