AN ALBUM OF | RAILWAY ENGINES! Issued bg W. D. & H. O. WILLS BRANCH OF THE IMPeRJAL. TOBACCO COMPANY tOF CRCAT BR4TAJN AND IFt£UU><D;, LIMITED PRICE ONE PENNY -5 EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE "SILVER JUBILEE." London, Midland & Scottish Ely. The interest of this 4-6-0 three-cylinder express passenger engine, completed in May, 1935, centres in the beautiful finish. WILLS'S CIGARETTES The shiny black of the boiler, cab and tendersides is contrasted with the chromium plating adopted for wheels and motion work, steam pipe casings, etc. No. 5552 bears the name "Sil• ver Jubilee" in honour of His late Majesty King George V's Silver Jubilee. She was exhibited at Euston, together with the former L.N.W.R. 4-4-0 engine "Coronation" (built 1911), dur• ing Silver Jubilee Week, May, 1935. On Nov. 6th, 1935, she EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE "SILVER JUBILEE." L.M.S.R. worked the honevxnoon special •A conveying the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester from St. Pancras to Kettering. (No. 1) "PACIFIC" EXPRESS LOCO. " PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE." L.M.S.R. For hauling the most impor• tant Anglo-Scottish expresses W/ILLS-s CIGARETTES over the West Coast route, inclu• ding the "Royal Scot," "Mid• day Scot" and "Night Scot," the L.M.S.R. employs 4-6-2 locomotives of the "Princess Royal" class, each named after a member of the Royal Family, and weighing with tender, in working order, 158 tons 12 cwt. Like the G.W.R. "King" and "Castle" class engines, these engines have four cylinders and a boiler pressure of 250 lb. per sq. in. On such duties as the "Royal Scot" express, these -PACIFIC" EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE "PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE," L.M.S.R. engines may work right through between Euston and Glasgow (401^ miles), or Euston and Edinburgh (3991 miles). (No. 2) THE "ROCKET" TU RB INE-D RIVEN LOCOMOTIVE, pIONEER of the modern steam locomotive, Stephenson's famous London, Midland & Scottish Rly. " Rocket " was built in 1829, and in October of the same year The familiar exhaust beat of the orthodox steam locomotive at Rainhill, near Liverpool, it rewarded the hopes of its builders is strangely absent when this engine is running, for the drive by moving a load of three times its own weight of 4J tons at an is by turbine and gearing instead of by cylinders and pistons. The average speed of 13*8 m.p.h., and running light at a maximum speed of smooth turning effort imparted to the driving wheels by a turbine 29 m.p.h. Compared with the performance of the modern giants illus• and the very gentle exhaust, thus trated in this Album, these figures seem insignificant, but at that time saving fuel, have long attracted locomotive engineers. Our illus• they were a remarkable revelation of the possibilities of steam traction. tration shows No. 6202, a 4-6-2, which was introduced in 1935, the first of the type to be built by a railway company in Great Brit• ain. The main turbine, used for forward running, develops 2,000 h.p. and is carried under the casingnear the front; a smaller turbine for backward rnnning is on the opposite side. (No. 3) STREAMLINED EXPRESS "CASTLE" CLASS EXPRESS LOCO. "SILVER LINK," LOCO. "WINDSOR CASTLE." London & North Eastern Rly, Great Western Railway. Great Britain's first fully- During a visit to the G.W.R. 3^ streamlinedlocomotive, a4-6--2, Works at Swindon in 1924, His 9j was introduced by the L.N.E.r! late Majesty King George V per• s CIGARETTES in 1935 for working the stream• sonally drove this engine and its lined London-Newcastle express train from the Works to Swindon "The Silver Jubilee," so named Station; a brass plate commem• in honour of His late Majesty orating the event has since been King George V's Silver Jubilee. The distance of 268-3miles, with carried on the cab side. It was one stop at Darlington, is cov• singularly appropriate that the ered in 4 hours. On an experi• same engine should be used to mental run on September 27th, draw the Royal Funeral Train 1935, "Silver Link" twice bearing the body of the late King reached a maximum speed of from Paddington to Windsor 112^ m.p.h. To minimize wind on January 28th, 1936. The resistance, the engine and cab "Castle" class of four-cylinder fronts and the sides of the train ••CASTLE" CLASS EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE - WINDSOR CASTLE, y. have been specially shaped. 4-6-0 express engines is world S "Silver Link" is one of four renowned for speed, being used similar engines built for this on the famous "Cheltenham popular service. (No. 4J Flyer" express. (No. 7) STREAMLINED EXPRESS PARTIALLY-STREAMLINED LOCO. "COCK O'THE LOCO. "MANORBIER CASTLE," NORTH." L.N.E.R. Great Western Railway. • ESEb The G.W.R. recently applied The first eight-coupled loco• y. casings of special contour to the motive built for express passen• 'ILLS'S CIGARETTES smoke-box front, over the cylin• WILLS'S CIGARETTES ger service in Great Britain, this ders and behind the chimney and three-cyUnder 2-8-2 engine was also the first ordinary-type safety valves, on "King Henry engine on a home railway to have VII" of the "King" class, and a streamlined contour. This class " Manorbier Castle " (4-6-0) of is employed on " The Flying the "Castle" class. At the same Scotsman" and other expresses time the cab fronts were fitted between Edinburgh and Aber• with'' V"-shaped casings and the deen. In 1934 No. 2001 was tender tops similarly cased in to tested on the French locomotive the line of the cab roof. This was testing plant at Vitry, near Paris. in order to test out the advan• Special features include the tages of partial streamlining in double blast-pipe and the two reducing wind resistances on chimneys set one behind the express locomotives, thus effect• STREAMLINED EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE •COCK OTHE NORTH." L.N.E.R. other within the same casing, PARTIALLY STREAMLINED LOCOMOTIVE "MANORBIER CASTLE." G.W.R. r and poppet-valves. In working ing economies in coal consump• order "Cock o'the North" weighs tion. Our illustration shows the llOi tons, and the tender 55i altered appearance of "Manor• tons. (No. 5} bier Castle." (No. 8) "PACIFiC" EXPRESS "KING" CLASS EXPRESS LOCO, " PAPYRUS." LOCO. "KING GEORGE V," Lottdon & North Eastern Rly. Great Western Railway. For its principal heavy ex• This four-cylinder 4-6-0 presses, the L.N.E.R. uses a WILLS-s CIGARETTES 4-6-2 or "Pacific" type three- engine belongs to the principal cylinder engine. The latest class of G.W.R. express locomo• w'eigh, with corridor tender, 158 tives, and is employed in such tons 13 cwt., and the majority services as the "Cornish Riviera bear names of racehorses. No. Limited" express. No. 6000 was 2750, "Papyrus," became worid- exhibited in America in 1927 farnous on March 5th, 1935, at the Baltimore & Ohio Rail• when, after having already run road Centenary celebrations. 392,853 miles since being built Her clean Hnes and the high in 1928, she attained a then l)ower developed for her size world record maximum speed considerably impressed Ameri• for steam of ICS m.p.h., and can engineers, and several covered 12-3 miles at an average designs incorporating the neat of 100-6 m.p.h. With her load of British outlines have since been 216| tons, "Papyrus" ran from built for American railwavs. CLASS EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE " KING GEORGE V.' G.W.R. s King's Cross to Newcastle and Before her return, the B. &'0. back (536-6 miles) in a total authorities presented No. 6000 running time of 7 hrs. 48 mms, with an American locomotive 2ZEP 55 sees., and for 300 miles aver• bell, which is carried on the front aged SO m.p.h. (No. 6) above the buffer beam. (No. 9) "LORD NELSON" CLASS EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE. EXPRESS LOCO. "LORD Great Southern Rlys., Ireland. HAWKE." Southern Railway. Belonging to a class first intro• duced in 1916 on the former The Southern Railway routes from Loudon, over which the Great Southern & Western Rail• Dover and Folkestone Contin• way, now part of the Great ental boat trains, such as the Southern Railways' system. No. "Golden Arrow" Pullman ex• 402, together with others of the press, are worked, are by no class, has been altered from a means easy for the locomotives. four- to a two-cylinder design; There are numerous grades and they now weigh 121^ tons with curves, while near London delays then: 48-ton tenders. These 5 ft. are often experienced from the dense suburban traffic. The 3 in.-gauge 4-6-0 engines are "Lord Nelson" four-cylinder employed on such services as the 4-6-0 express locomotives, English mail trains between named after famous seamen, are Dublin and Cork. No. 402 has used on these workings and also worked a three-coach special on the "Atlantic Coast" and over the 165-3 miles from Cork other expresses to and from to Dubhn non-stop in 2 hrs. 27 Waterloo, Western Section. In mins., and covered 106-9 miles working order they each weigh 83i tons, and their eight-wheeled of this distance at an average of tenders 56 tons 14 cwt. (No. 10) 73-7 m.p.h. (No. 13) DRUMM BATTERY TRAIN. "SCHOOLS" CLASS Great Southern Rlys., Ireland. LOCO. " LEATHERHEAD, " SoutJtern Railway. A great deal of interest was aroused in railway circles when For working moderately- it became known that an electric WILLS'S CIGARETTES heavy trains on which the larger battery had been invented which six-coupled express engines are notrequired, ortheuseofwhichis could be re-charged much more deemed unsuitable by weight or quickly than the usual type.