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6229 was built in September 1938 at Crewe, at a cost of £11,302, as the tenth member of its class and the last in the second batch of five red streamliners, complete with gold speed cheat stripes.
In 1939 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.
 
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Railway Steam Locomotive Christmas Xmas Card featuring 6232 LMS Duchess Duchess of Montrose
Winter presented all manner of problems to Steam locomotives and here one of Sir William Stanier's superb Coronation Pacifics, more commonly known as 'Duchess' shows that it is equal to the task and gives a fine performance over the metals. Here we see one of in the early days of the class without streamlined cladding but also without the distinctive smoke deflectors.
 
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Ex-LMS 4-6-2 Coronation Class No 6238 'City of Carlisle' heads a down service past the new flyover being built to avoid conflicts with traffic heading to and from Birmingham. Built as LMS No 6238 by Crewe works in streamlined form, the locomotive was renumbered by British Railways in March 1949 which it retained until October 1964 when it was withdrawn from 12A Upperby shed to be scrapped by Arnott Young of Troon.
 
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LMS 4-6-2 No 6240 'City of Coventry' stands adjacent to Quinton Road after being named by the Lord Mayor of Coventry.
When first built, in streamlined form in March 1940, No 6240, a member of the Princess Coronation Class, was painted in Crimson Lake livery It remained in this livery until December 1944 when it was painted in plain Wartime Black.
After having its streamlining removed and smoke deflectors fitted in June 1947, the LMS repainted it in lined Black livery the following month.
As No 46240, it retained this LMS livery until in January 1950 when British Railways painted it Standard Blue. The locomotive received its cylindrical smokebox in July 1953, and was again repainted in October 1954 when British Railways applied the lined Green livery. In July 1958 it received the British Railways red/maroon livery to be followed in August 1960 when it was given the 'LMS lined maroon' livery
 
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