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rail transport

London, Midland and Scottish Railway

Dissolved 1947

Headquarters: Euston House
Founded: 1923
Employees: —

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Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

2,694

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What London, Midland and Scottish Railway is

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The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four. The companies merged into the LMS included the London and North Western Railway, the Midland Railway, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (which had previously merged with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922), several Scottish railway companies (including the Caledonian Railway), and numerous other, smaller ventures.

In 1938, the LMS operated 6,870 miles (11,056 km) of railway (excluding its lines in Northern Ireland), but its profitability was generally disappointing, with a rate of return of only 2.7%. Under the Transport Act 1947, along with the other members of the "Big Four" British railway companies (Great Western Railway, London and North Eastern Railway and Southern Railway), the LMS was nationalised on 1 January 1948, becoming part of the state-owned British Railways.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: rail transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: Euston House
Formed in: —
Founded: 1923
Dissolved: 1947
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 51.5289, -0.1315

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: —
Average vessel age: —
Oldest vessel on record: —
Newest vessel on record: —
Largest vessel by tonnage: 2,694
Average tonnage: 2,694
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Ro-Ro1

By shipbuilder

William Denny and Brothers1

Vessel records

Ships on record · Ro-Ro

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MV Princess Victoria	1168901	Ro-Ro	—	—	2,694	—	—	William Denny and Brothers

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How London, Midland and Scottish Railway compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, London, Midland and Scottish Railway is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which London, Midland and Scottish Railway ranks 38th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1923, London, Midland and Scottish Railway is 103 years old. This directory holds 57 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.