Steve Thank you for some wonderful picturea of these trains. Our proper friend Freddie Moiser the Chief Signals Inspector for Teesside used to tell us about the big engines that could not cope with some local curves that would, and did de rail. But of course he had experience, where degrees did not.
A good view of the grandstands at the 1925 procession. The loco is a Gresley class P1, No 2393. It was literally brand new at the time. Whilst the 2-8-2 wheel arrangement was popular in the USA, there were few locos of this type built in the UK. On the LNER there were the two P1 freight locos and the P2 express passenger locos for the Edinburgh – Aderdeen service. The P1 illustrated was powerful enough to take much longer freight trains than previous designs, but was really a victim of its own success. Few loops could accommodate these long trains and the P1s had short lives.
Steve Thank you for some wonderful picturea of these trains. Our proper friend Freddie Moiser the Chief Signals Inspector for Teesside used to tell us about the big engines that could not cope with some local curves that would, and did de rail. But of course he had experience, where degrees did not.
A good view of the grandstands at the 1925 procession. The loco is a Gresley class P1, No 2393. It was literally brand new at the time. Whilst the 2-8-2 wheel arrangement was popular in the USA, there were few locos of this type built in the UK. On the LNER there were the two P1 freight locos and the P2 express passenger locos for the Edinburgh – Aderdeen service. The P1 illustrated was powerful enough to take much longer freight trains than previous designs, but was really a victim of its own success. Few loops could accommodate these long trains and the P1s had short lives.