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Steam Locos

Some history and photographs of 4073 Caerphilly Castle.
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4073 Caerphilly Castle

4073 was completed at Swindon in August 1923 at a cost of £6,841 as the first member of the Castle class. After a brief running in period it went to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924…
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A preserved locomotive was named after Bishop Treacy when it was at Tyseley.
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45428 (LMS 5428 & 45428)

LMS 5428 was built in 1937 by Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle upon Tyne, one of an order for 227 such locomotives, the largest order ever placed by a British railway company with a private firm. A…
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I bought the Rev Eric Treacy's book for the boys when they were young and still have it, brilliant pictures in it, also the Great Western in colour, by O S Nock. old but great photo's. paul
 
In the late 70s Evening Star was at Tysley for the weekend.Still got the 20 slides I took of it when I took my girls to see it.
 
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Taking over from the Steam Loco, 1962...

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Good units, problem was they were diesel hydraulic and not diesel electric which the rest of British Rail favoured and as such as a Western design, they were not developed beyond this one class. As Alan says we used to see them regularly in the south west as the Warships moved on (another Maybach based design). 1015 Western Champion one of the preserved ones.

Bob
 
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French National Railways (SNCF) 241P A 4-8-2 Most probably 241P17 as this was the one kept in preservation.
35 of these were built between 1948 and 1952. They ran in the eastern (1), western (3) and south-eastern (5) regions of the SNCF. They had an SNCF designed mechanical stoker. All withdrawn by 1973 they were some the last passenger steam locomotives built for the SNCF
 
Bob Davis said:
Good units, problem was they were diesel hydraulic and not diesel electric which the rest of British Rail favoured and as such as a Western design, they were not developed beyond this one class. As Alan says we used to see them regularly in the south west as the Warships moved on (another Maybach based design). 1015 Western Champion one of the preserved ones.

Bob
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The other preserved ones are 1010 Western Campaigner, 1013 W. Ranger, 1023 W. Fusilier, 1041 W. Prince, 1048 W. Lady and 1062 W. Courier. Not steam I know, but just to complete my previous post.

Bob
 
The pictures from some of the Birmingham papers are pretty poor, but here is a competition from the Birmingham Daily Post of June 1972.

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Pedrocut said:
The pictures from some of the Birmingham papers are pretty poor, but here is a competition from the Birmingham Daily Post of June 1972.

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1 is Manobier Castle, GWRs answer to streamlining, 2 is LNER 'streak' -Mallard or aimilar, from the clour could be Silver Link 5 is Southern West Country, Battle of Britain or Merchant Navy 'Spam Can' Is 3 the P4 they are now building a 'Lazurus' copy engine or is itthe turbo engine I think LMS built? 4. No idea, but looks like Dr Richard Beeching is there!! Thanks Pedro, send the £50K and trip to see Big Boy that I have just won, poste haste. 'Big Boy' for non rail is a huge American loco, built for the Union Pacific, put big boy into Wikipedia for details. On you tube there are some marvellous films of it as it toured the states.

Bob
 
Sorry Bob, I made a terrible mistake and called it a competition. The answers are on the same page of the paper.

Oh, the power of having the answers!

1....not Manobier Castle, but the picture was taken at Swindon Works in1935.
2...is Silver Link
5...is Southern railways but not Battle of Britain or Merchant Navy.
 
My laptop (whilst I await delivery of my new power supply for my desktop) is not as good for definition as my usual monitor. No.1 I thought was a King. No.2 is, as Bob says, an A4, No.3 seems to be the ill fated LMS unusual experimental turbine, No.4, no idea and lastly 5 is a Merchant Navy class spamcan.
 
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As said the pictures are Poor and it would be hard to make out specific detail.

So yes No 1 is King Henry VII

N°3 is an LMS and in the Picture it is being lowered into the hold of a ship in Southampton for a tour of America, and the World's fair in 1939.
 
N°4 is Minister of Transport, Alfred Barnes in 1951, naming N°7000, Britannia.

N°5 is N°2103 Royal Mail. Picture taken in 1941.
 
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