Peppercorns A1

Never saved so a new one was built. Peppercorns

A1

Tornado was the first brand new steam locomotive

of the 21st century

 

Superb machines in their day

SR Schools class

Not for reasons of personal memory but simply

admiration of a superb locomotive. Richard

Maunsel's 'Schools' Class were a class apart

 

Bradford Foster Sq station

Previously known as Bradford Market St station

 

 

Bradford was for me always a Midland or LMS

town. The first station was Market St which was

the first connection between Leeds and Bradford.

The Bradford and Leeds Railways was soon taken

over by the Midland railway which had access to

Leeds and so the relationship was born. Built in

the area of the town known as Little Bermondsey,

 the original Market St Station was a little to the

west and north, roughly where the Midland Hotel

main acom block stands in this picture. Little

Bermondsey and its associated Margerison

Square was a slum and under the clearances

of the mid 19th century following the 1849

50 and 51 Cholera epidemics, was demolished,

making way for the new Midland station

Whale 4-6-0 inside two cylinder 4F-D

Again the similarity of thinking between Crewe

and Horwich is apparent. Whales 4F-D 

 

Introduced 1908. Whale LNWR "19-inch Goods".
  Rebuilt with Belpaire boiler.

Weight:
Loco 63 tons 0 cwt Driving Wheel: 5' 2?"
Boil Press: 175lb/sq in NS
Cylinders: Two Valve Gear: Joy (piston valves)
19" x 26" (inside) TE: 22,340 lb

 

 

The 4F-D was a freight engine which could well

serve on passenger trains too notably excursion

work and special running where a conventional

passenger loco was not available.

Hughes L&Y 4-6-0 passenger engine

I have always been struck by the similarities between

the Lancashire and Yorkshire locomotives and the LNWR

designs such as the Claughton's of a similar period. Of

course the LNWR and the L&Y amalgamated before

the 1924 great grouping, having amalgamated on 1st

of January 1922.

 

 

Crewe and Horwich must have had some amazing

second sight or more realistically joint thinking

Above the Hughes 4-6-0 three cylinder passenger

locomotive built for the fast trans Pennine services

of the L&Y

 

It compares well with the Claughton class four cylinder

4-6-0 of the LNWR.

LMS Royal Scot class 'The Boy Scout'

Doubtless the Chief scout of the day

 

LMS 0-6-0 Jinty

The very popular Triang Rovex model of the Jinty

which so many of us played with in the fifties and

sixties. For many the budget set was a first model

Railway