2-8-2 Gresley P2 class locomotive LNER No. 2001 ‘Cock O’ The North’ built in 1934. Rebuilt to A2/2 class specification (4-6-2) in 1943. Renumbered by BR to No. 60501.
The picture below shows an example of the BR standard 9F class modified with a Franco-Crosti boiler. An unusual feature of the variant is that both the smoke and the steam was ejected through a vent adjacent to the footplate; the conventional chimney being only used whilst getting up steam.
An unidentified LMS locomotive picking up water from the water troughs between the rails in 1931 at Bushey, Hertfordshire.
(above) The Flying Scotsman being swung aboard the 5,149 ton vessel ‘Saxonia’ at Liverpool. The engine and tender were being shipped to Boston Mass. US for the five week ‘Buy British’ tour in 1969.
(below) View from the cab of No. 4472 at speed.
A pair of photographs of ‘The Flying Scotsman’ taken near Porchester in Hampshire in 1966 after it’s purchase from BR. Both pictures taken and offered for use on this site by Chris Burton of Drayton, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Thanks Chris!
No. 92220 ’Evening Star’; the last locomotive to be built for British Railways at Swindon works, completed in March 1960
BR Standard Class 9F
Introduced in 1954. Wheel arrangement 2-10-0 with Walschaerts valve gear.
