Beauty and the beasts...

6229 was built in 1938 at Crewe as a streamliner, complete with gold speed cheat stripes . In 1939 no. 6229 was sent to North America with a specially-constructed Coronation Scot train to appear at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The locomotive (though not its carriages) was shipped back from the States in 1942 after the outbreak of the Second World War.

6229 was painted wartime black livery in November 1944. In 1948 she passed into BR ownership. BR numbered her 46229 on 15 April 1948. She was painted in the short-lived BR blue livery in April 1950, but was soon repainted on 26 April 1952 into Brunswick green. In October 1959 she received the current LMS style lining which she has carried for all her years in preservation.

Here she is in the National Railway Museum offshoot at Shildon near Darlington. Notice the experimental tilting train to her left. And they call that progress!!!