By Brian Sharpe
The London & North jap Railway was once well-known for its apple eco-friendly engines, teak coaches, the ‘Flying Scotsman’ and streamlined A4 Pacifics, but in addition the old fashioned rural byways during which lots of its prone handed. The newly-formed railway corporation inherited a few iconic railway infrastructure, but additionally a few fairly historic intent energy and rolling inventory.
LNER engines have endured to outshine their rivals, with the accessory extra on caliber than volume. Being without delay descended from the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the LNER inherited a priority for its historical past, opened Britain’s first railway museum and operated the 1st preserved engine to haul a chief line passenger train.
This 132 web page complete color e-book – the second one in a steam revival sequence from background Railway journal deputy editor Brian Sharpe – tells the tale of every of the fifty two one-time LNER or LNER-designed steam locomotives that have survived in protection, 35 of that have steamed considering that 1948.
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He was a Quaker who also disapproved of trade unionism. Holden reorganised Stratford works, and by introducing a degree of standardisation, took Stratford to an exceptionally high position among British locomotive works in the speed and efficiency of its locomotive production. He was particularly noted for once erecting a Y14 0-6-0 in just nine hours 47 minutes and pioneered the use of oil firing for steam locomotives. Although he improved existing designs, in his first year at Stratford, four designs were introduced; a 2-4-2T, an 0-6-0T, an 0-6-0 goods and the T19 2-4-0 express passenger class, which was to prove the mainstay of GER main line passenger services for many years.
The M&GN mainly used MR or GNR locomotive designs but once part of the LNER, the M&GN engines were all quickly scrapped; a sole survivor being a boiler from a Hudswell Clarke 4-4-0T. Although there have been plans for this to form the basis of a newbuild project, it seems more likely that it could be used on a new GCR engine with a similar type of boiler. For much of the company’s existence, its locomotives were painted light golden brown, but from 1922 the goods engines were painted dark brown, followed by the rest of the locomotives in 1929.
251 at Barrow Hill Roundhouse. TOP: GNR Large Atlantic No. 251 pilots GCR D11 4-4-0 No. 62663 Prince Albert into Basingstoke with the ‘Farnborough Flyer’ from Leeds to the Farnborough air show on September 12, 1954. L ELSEY/ RAILWAY MAGAZINE C1 4-4-2 No. 251 Following on from the success of his first Atlantics, Ivatt built the large-boilered version for the GNR. In December 1902, No. 251 appeared from Doncaster, the design being a natural development of the ‘Klondyke’ with a much larger boiler. The GNR classified both as C1, but the LNER classified the large-boilered version as C1 and the small-boilered one C2.