Very similar to the Great Northern Atlantic's. Well they were designed by brothers
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Nice, except one never forgets these are really an Ivatt Great Northern design with detail differences. Anyway, for me the Brighton I3 class 4-4-2T is far more attractive and considering that the type's outstanding performance on the Sunny South Express brought the value of superheating to the fore in locomotive design it should not be forgotten (though I understand it was one of Marsh's draughtsmen rather than Marsh himself who instigated and pressed this worthwhile innovation).
ReplyDeleteWell, the original caption is wrong in almost all respects. It's Victoria and not a boat train. In any case an LBSC boat train would be from Newhaven. Basil Field was Chief draughtsman under Marsh. But to be entirely fair, no CME ever designed any locomotive single handedly. Marsh might have had a hand in Ivatt's Atlantic as he was works manager at Doncaster, before going to Brighton.
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