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[[File:LMS Stanier Jubilee Class 5690 "Leander" at Kidderminster Town Station - geograph.org.uk - 1111830.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Leander as an SVR locomotive in 1984 (Geograph)]]
'''45690 Leander ''' (LMS No 5690) was resident on the SVR between 1980 and 1981 and between 1983 and 1994. She was also a Gala visitor in Autumn 2010.
Leander is an LMS 4-6-0 Jubilee class locomotive, designed by Sir William Stanier. The Jubilee class was an update of the LMS Fowler 3-cylinder Patriot or ‘Baby Scot’ design of 1930, incorporating a Stanier/Swindon design of tapered boiler and modified cylinders. Jubilees were mainly used on ‘second division’ express passenger services, and were rated as 5XP by BR following nationalisation.
===Sale by SVR(H)===
In winter of 1994 the SVR(H) Board announced the sale of 45690 Leander (and 45699 Galatea) to the family of Dr. Peter Beet(and of 45699 Galatea to another unnamed purchaser). The justification given was that the offer was attractive, the locomotive had been stored out of use for 5 years, funds were not available for a General Repair, and once repaired the locomotive would see limited use on the SVR due to its size and axle loading. Predictably many members complained of the Railway ‘selling the family silver’.
===Gala visit===
