GNR (LNER) and L&Y Express locomotives

Originally designed and built by the GNR the A1

Pacific's were the fastest

 

 

Hughes on the L&Y designed heavy fast passenger

locomotives for the cross country routes

 

Serving both east and west coast

 

L&Y loco's could be seen from Morecombe to

Cleethorpes

 

The Atlantic design played and important part

just as it did with the GNR

 

Those ever tempting railway posters

Meant for the working class

and that much loves wakes week

 

L&Y 4 6 0 Heavy Passenger express

Both Southport and Blackpool along with Morecombe

were served by the big 4 6 0 heavy locomotives

of the L&Y on excursion work to the coast 

 

Blackpool was for the rest of us

But many found it to be the

the much needed break

 

Southport was pretty swish

The Lancs and Yorks served the industrial areas

in many and varied ways

 

The American connection

Taken from the American wheel arrangement 4 4 2

Commonly known as the Atlantic

 

 

They must have been a thrilling ride in those early

days just after the races to the North

 

I have it they were a lively ride on the footplate

Nigel Gresly's A4 class

The streaks were indeed a product of my county's

industrial might