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Ucrs-259-1967-Aug-Mp-898.Pdf BRITAIN Comes to the Rail Museums By Omer Lavallee Xhe month of April saw the port of Montreal No. 60010 was built at Doncaster Works in 1937, play host to two consignments of British rail• to the design of Sir Nigel Gresley. One of way equipment — comprising no less than three 35 streamlined engines of the A4 class of the locomotives and a passenger car — bound for former London & North Eastern Railway, its or• North American museums. iginal number was 4489, and when outshopped it bore the name 'Woodcock'. In the summer of One locomotive, British Railways No. 60010, an 1937, the LNER introduced a new non-stop ex• A4 4-6-2 named 'Dominion of Canada', arrived press service running the 400 miles between aboard the Canadian Pacific steamer 'Beaveroak' London and Edinburgh in six hours, and in keep• on April 24th, bound for the Canadian Railway ing with the spirit of the Coronation Year of Museum at Delson, Quebec. Stowed in one of King George VI, named the train Coronati on and the ship's holds, it was not off-loaded until the locomotives assigned to it after major Wednesday, April 26th. constituents of the British Commonwealth. Accordingly, 'Woodcock' was taken back into The A4, newly painted at Crewe Works in BR's the shops and refinished in the now-famous standard green livery, was accompanied by a garter blue livery adopted for this train. The foreign corridor tender, that of another A4 — new nameplates, bearing the inscription "Dom• 'Miles Beevor' — recently withdrawn; this inion of Canada", were unveiled at Kings Cross substitution of tenders was made during the station in London by the Hon. Vincent Massey exterior restoration and painting of the past (then High Commissioner for Canada in London, winter. The original name plates of the loco• and later Canada's first native-born Governor motive had apparently been disposed of, since General) on June 15th, 1937. No. 4489 was new nameplates of wood were mounted on the also fitted with a Canadian locomotive bell engine. While it is usual for a locomotive's and whistle, and bore the coat of arms of Can• main rods to be removed for dead movement, ada on the cab side below the engine number. curiously, all of 60010's side rods had been taken down as well, the rods and motion being The A4 class attained a measure of distinction crated and stored separately aboard ship. when one of its class. No. 4468 'Mallard', at• tained a speed of 126 m.p.h. on July 3rd, 1938. The locomotive was moved from the foot of This is the hishest officially-authenticated McGill Street (where it was unloaded) to CP's speed ever attained by a steam locomotive. Hochelaga Yard on April 26th, and from there Fittingly, 'Mallard' Itself is preserved in to St. Luc the following day. Still free• the Clapham Museum in London. Several other wheeled, it was transferred from St. Luc to A4's are also preserved, including another on Delson on the morning of April 28th. this continent, at Green Bay, Wisconsin. 124 AUGUST, 1967 In 1946, LNER underwent a major renumbering The 0-4-4T, No. 30053, is one of a series of ani d No. 4489 emerged as No. 10, to become the 55 such engines designed by Dugald Drummond now-familiaI r 60010 two years later when, after for the London & South Western Railway in 1897. nationalizationI , 60000 was added to the numbers These locomotives, class M7 of the Southern of all ex-LNER motive power. The locomotive Railway after that system absorbed the LSWR was retired several years ago and was stored at in 1923, were used primarily in London suburb• Darlington prior to removal to Crewe. an service, but were gradually displaced as the LSWR lines in the vicinity of the capital The second consignment of British equipment were electrified. They eventually ended up on arrived as deck cargo on board the Ulster rural branch lines or in shunting duties. The Steamship Company's 'Roonagh Head' — charter• Steamtown 0-4-4T was SR No. 53 until national• ed to Canadian Pacific Steamships — on April ization in 1948. No. 30053 remains in British 28th. Destined for Nelson Blount's Steamtown Railways lined black livery and is reportedly museum at Bellows Falls, Vermont, were British in operating condition. Railways No. 30926 'Repton' — a Schools class 4-4-0 — and M7 0-4-4T No. 30053, accompanied The third component of this shipment. Great by first-third-brake-corridor passenger car Western Railway first-third-brake-corridor No. No. 6705. 6705, was also fully restored — in pre-war Great Western chocolate-and-cream livery with The subject of the Southern Railway's famous GWR monograms — prior to shipment to North three-cylinder Schools class 4-4-0's was America. treated in detail by Mr. R.F. Corley in the September, 1963 NEWSLETTER. These compact and The Steamtown-bound equipment was unloaded on well-balanced locomotives were designed by April 28th. The next day, a special transfer R.E.L. Maunsell, and built between 1930 and headed by 1000 h.p. National Harbours Board 1935 at Eastleigh Works; forty were built in switcher D-4 pulled the two engines and car, all, each named after a British public school. headed and trailed by two specially-equipped No. 926, 'Repton', was outshopped in 1934. Canadian Pacific flatcars, along the Montreal Built particularly to accomodate the tight waterfront to the CPR interchange under the clearances of the Hastings line of the former Jacques Cartier Bridge. Here, a Canadian South Eastern & Chatham Railway, these engines Pacific transfer, including road switcher No. — Southern Railway class 'V — were reputed 8030 and a number of empty boxcars for brake to be the most powerful 4-4-0's in Europe. ballast, coupled on and pulled 'Repton' and its companions in a special move around to The advent of nationalization saw 30000 added Glen Yard, where they were stored in the former to the numbers of former SR engines, and 'Rep• roundhouse for safekeeping. ton' became No. 30926 of British Railways. Attempts to bring it to North America began Mr. Blount had previously asked Canadian Pac• about 1963 when Mr. Edgar Meade of New York ific to exhibit 'Repton' for one dav at Windsor obtained an option on it; it was finally ac• Station to publicize Steamtown and its new ac• quired by Mr. Nelson Blount for the Steamtown quisitions, and this request was acceded to. Museum at Bellows Falls, Vermont, along with Thus it was that on Wednesday, May 10th, 'Rep• the second locomotive and car. 'Repton' was fully restored to Southern Railway livery ton' was stationed on Track 10 and played host prior to shipment from Liverpool on April 18th to about four thousand visitors. and is accompanied by the tender of SR No. 726, a Maunsell 2-6-0. Two other Schools class Following the Windsor Station display, the locomotives have been preserved, both in Brit• Steamtown-bound rolling stock was sent to Bel• ain. lows Falls on its own wheels in two batches. For this rail journey, Mr. Blount had acquired two extra sets of buffers and hook couplings BELOW: "Repton', GWR coach and No. 30053, coupled and Canadian Pacific applied these to the flat into a special CPR transfer, climb Hochelaga Hill, cars in place of the wooden blocks used when just above the Sherbrooke Street overpass, Mont• the equipment arrived. real, on April 29th. /Jim Sandilands NEWSLETTER 125 The 0-4-4T and the coach left Montreal first. and coach travelled over the Lyndonville Sub• They travelled to Farnham on May 11th; to New• division on May 13th was CP's veteran DRS-15a port on the 12th and to Wells River on the No. 8400, the first road diesel ever to be 13th, arriving at Steamtown- on May^15th. The used in the Montreal area, back in 1949.) flatcars were returned to Montreal that week, and 'Repton' left on May 23rd, arriving in Physical dimensions of the three British loco• Bellows Falls on May 27th. (It is interesting motives covered in these notes are given in to note that the wayfreight in which the M7 the diagrams reproduced below: MAXIMUM WIOTH OF ENGINB'9'.O' 2S0 La. PER Sq.lH. «2r.9c. I02T.I3C. TOTAL WEIGHT OF ENGINE * TENDER IN WORKING ORDER-leST.Tc. HEAVHG SURFACE, TUBES- SUPERHEATER ELEMENTS 43-li IN. DM. OUTS. LARGE AND SMALL ... 1,345-I SO.T - LARGE TUBES -tS-Si IN, DIA. OUTS I 17 FT. IIJ IN. FIREBOX 231-2 TOTAL (EWORATIVE) 2.576-3 SMALL TUBES I2l-2i IN. OIA. OUTS J" BET. TUBEPIATES SUPERHEATER 7-W-9 GRATE AREA ... ' 41-25SQ.FT. CONfilNEO HEATING SURFACES 3,325-2 TRACTIVE EFFORT (AT 85 PER CENT. B.P.) ... 3S,45S LB. Ai Class 220 LB. PER Sq. IN. 45— ~ MAXIMUM WIDTH 0F~fNGm-8'.6k' ±1 COAL SJONS--'^ WATER 4000 CALLOWS -S'.E'— -E'.SL- li'.C- WEIGHTS IN Gr/7c MT.IC. I4T.I0G WORKING ORDER ff7r-2C. 7&TAL Wr.OF £NaNC*TENOeR=IOST.I0G 42T.8C. HEATING SURFACES, TUBES- SUPERHEATER ELEMENTS 24-li IN. DIA. OUTS. LARGE AND SNAU 1.604-0 SQ. FT. LARGE TUBES 24-5i IN. DIA. OUTS. -1 12 FT. 3i IN. HREBOX 162-0 „ SMAU TUBES 2l6-!i IN. DIA. OUTS, f BET. TUBEPLATES TOTAL lEYAPORATIVE) 1,766-0 „ SUPERHEATER 283-0 „ GRATE AREA 28-3 SO. FT. COMBINED HEATING SURFACES ... 2,049-0 „ TRACTIVE EFFORT {AT 85 PER CENT. B.P.) ... 25,130 LB. V Class (" Schools ") nSLa.PERSq.lN.
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