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There is a remarkable amount on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway on the main wikipedia and it is reasonable to not duplicate it here.
Please go look at their pages
It seems that a LMS permanent way engineer was involved with the FR at some point between the wars and introduced two hole fishplates which were then current LMS practice. See Fishplate.
