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©IDEA, DESIGN, WORLD COPYRIGHT. L Biiill in 1829 by ;ind Company, antj winner of the Origins of steam lamous trials in the same COLLECTORS' MINIATURES year, the suceess ol' this engine is generally considered to have been the most important single event in From early times man has sought to develop James Watt, and others, railway history. The introduction of self-propelled, or mechanically propelled built improved stationary engines to provide the multiple firelubc boiler, and the increased rate of combustion of the vehicles. The notes of mediaeval inventors power for the mines and factories. ILICI achieved by passing the exhaust tell of their cars driven by wind and hand, steam through a narrowing tube Ithe ) to the smokebox, to followed by brief mentions of the model In 1804 Trevithick successfully converted produce a forced draught through steam-cars of the Jesuit Father Verbiest one of his stationary engines into the first the boiler tubes, assisted in the rapid in 1668, and of Papin of Cassel in 1698. railway , to haul wagons between raising of steam and increased loco• motive speeds, at a single stroke, Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon. In 1808 he from the pace ofa cart horse to more constructed '' which he than .^0 m.p.h. Weiglit 4 25 tons. The first full-sized vehicle to move itself LIVERPOOL a I^ANCHESTER RAILWAY, •ROCKET" 0-2-2 LOCOMOTIVE. 1829 by steam was made by Nicholas James operated on a circular track in London, Cugnot in Paris in 1769. It performed before hauling wagons in which the public was a group of notables including General invited to ride - literally the first Gribeauval (First Inspector-General of passenger steam railway. Unfortunately

Artillery) and orders were given for another both locomotives were too heavy for the Developed from 's machine to be built, to carry cannon. Both type of rails then in use. locomotives built for work on the Killingworth Colliery lines, this was COLLECTORS MINIATURES machines however were unstable and crude the lirst to be used on in construction, and therefore unsuitable The first practically successful railway a public railway, being in service for practical use. The 1769 engine now at the opening of the Stockton and locomotive was J. Blenkinsop's rack Darlington on the 27th September, reposes in the Conservatoire des Arts locomotive of 1812; it ran on strong cast- 1825. The design is typical of the et Metiers. primitive locomotives which ran on iron edge rails and adhesion was secured by mineral lines before the arrival of the rack. Then, in 1813, came W. Medley's the multitubular boiler and other innovations introduced- with By 1784 James \tett's ingenious foreman, 'Puffing Billy' - the earliest surviving ••Rocket", and a notable feature is William Murdock, rad built a model steam- full-size locomotive in the world - built at the construction of the wheels, car of fair size which was running along the Colliery and used over a five-mile consisting of a number of iron castings dowelled together. Weighing roads of Redruth in Cornwall, and in 1786 stretch of track between Wylam and the 7 tons, with a boiler pressure of Watt himself was experimenting with a 50 lb,, the engine is now preserved staithes at Lemington - on-Tyne. 'Puffing STOCKTON a DARLINGTON RAILWAY. ••LOCOMOTION" 0-4-0 LOCO, 1825 substantial steam-carriage. A steam coach Billy' can now be seen at the Science at Darlington, was designed by William Symington and Museum, London, which acquired it in 1862 exhibited at Edinburgh in the same year, and after nearly fifty year's continuous service. in 1789 Thomas Allen, of London, designed a steam-carriage for passengers and goods. George Stephenson built his first locomotive in 1814 (design unknown) and in 1815 he Designed by John Rainsbottom, sixty engines of this class were built at made the first of his 'Killingworth' engines. Crewe between 1859 and 1865. COLLECTORS' MINIATURES Richard Trevithick was born at lllogan, intended for the Irish Mail trallic in Cornwall, and later resided close by between London and Holyhead, In 1823 the firm of Robert Stephenson and They were light and compact IRams- Murdock's house at Redruth. James Watt bottom did not favour large engines) Company was formed mainly for the purpose lived nearby too, and is recorded as saying and they were the lirst locomotives that Trevithick deserved hanging for of building locomotives and Robert in Ihe world to be fitted with Stephenson took over from his father the apparatus for picking up water at inventing the high-pressure steam engine speed. As a consequence, one of (allegedly because he regarded high- main responsibility for engine development. these engines, "Watt" (No, 229). Among its earliest products was achieved what was then a record pressure steam as dangerous: but no doubt non-stop run of 104 miles from 'Locomotion', built in 1825 for the Stockton the fact that his fortunes were tied up in Holyhead to Crewe, drawing a special low-pressure patents had some relevance). and Darlington Railway - the first carrying despatches concerning the locomotive for a public railway, with outside Trent dispute between Britain and Trevithick is reported to have fought a duel the U,S,A„ in 1862, coupling rods. It was at first doubtful with Murdock after building, in 1796, a LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY, 2-2-2 •LADY OF THE LAKE". three-wheeled model road engine with a however whether steam could compete vertical cylinder, not unlike Murdock's. economically with horse traction on the Darlington Railway, until 's powerful six-coupled engine In 1801 Trevithick, in collaboration with his 'Royal George', built in 1827, successfully Designed by S. W. Jtilmson in ml. cousin Andrew Vivian, built a full-sized these locomotives are remarkable in established the superiority of steam. that they revert to an earlier (by then COLLECTORS' MINIATURES steam carriage at Camborne, to which place obsolete) "single wheeler" arrange• he had moved, and in 1803 a second engine ment. The revival was made possible The Stephenson locomotive was now being by the invention of steam sanding was sent to London and fitted with a developed rapidly and experimentally, and gear which, by sanding the rails, barouche-type body by Felton of Leather allowed the drivers to get a belter the success of the 'Rocket' at the Rainhill grip. With a single pair of driving Lane. This second carriage ran in public Trials, held in October 1829, was perhaps wheels of 7 ft. 9! in, diameter, the for some time at what is now Lord's Cricket the most important single event in railway advantages were simplicity of con• struction and high speed perform• Ground and also at Euston Square. histroy. ance. Speeds of up to 90 ni,p,h, It should be noted that what may be The 'Rocket' and other Stephenson were recorded by Ibeoinolives of this considered as the first successful class, of which 95 were built between locomotives later hauled passengers and 1887 and 1900, in five variations each application of steam to provide power had freight on the Liverpool and larger than its predecessor. Pressure been developed as early as 1712, when 180 lb. Railway, which can be considered to have . A 2-2 EXPRESS PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE NO. 21, Newcomen designed and operated his provided the first really regular stationary beam engine. Subsequently passenger service. Seveniy-four engines of this genera! Somerset and Dorset engines Nos. design were built to specifications 77 and 78 were rebuilt with Belpaire COLLECTORS' MINIATURES drawn up by Matthew Kirtley. fireboxes in 1921. Both were trans• COLLECTORS- MINIATURES Nos. 130-35 were supplied by Robert ferred to L.M.S. stock on the 1st Stephenson and Company in 1852; January, 1930, when they were Nos. 120-29 by Sharp, Stewart and renumbered 320 and 321. With• Company in 1853. and subsequent drawn from service in 1931, for a batches were built at Derby. No. 33 time No. 320 continued to run in was built at Derby as No. 141 in Somerset and Dorset blue Itvcry but 1857. She was rebuilt by S. W. with L.M.S. lettering and numbers. Johnson in 1880 with new, heavy Locomotives of this class weighed plate frames and renumbered the 47 tons 8 cwt., with cylinders 18 in. x following year, when she was put 26 in, and boiler pressure 175 lb, lo working the Directors' saloon. developing 15,795 lb. tractive cfTort. Weighing 1%\, with driving wheelsof6ft. Sin. diameter and 16-1 They were a later development of S. W. Johnson's 4-^0 design of in. X 22 in. cylinders, she developed 1876, as rebuilt by R. M. Decley a pressure of !40 !b. per sq. in. MIDLAND RAILWAY. 1-1-1 EXPRESS PASSENGER LOCO. NO. 33. REBUILT 1 between 1903 and 1910, with larger boilers. LONDON. MIDLAND ft SCOTTISH RLY, CLASS I? 4-4 0 NO, 320. REBUILT 1921

Derived from William Smith's patent The first fifty engines of this class locomotive of 1898, built for the (Nos. 6100-49) were built in 1927 COLLECTORS' MINIATURES North Eastern Railway, the Midland by the North British Locomotive compounds were designed by S. W. Company, in . Twenty more Johnson in 1902. In all, 240 were (Nos. 6150-69) were built at Derby built (195 by the LM.S. after the in 1930. In 1933 No. 6152 was sent grouping) of which No, 1000 was Ihe to the Chicago Worlds Fair, for first, entering service as No. 2631 which event it exchanged number in 1902. Renumbered in 1907, it and name with 6100 "Royal Scot" was rebuilt in 1914 to R. M. Deeley's and received a Stanier-type lender. modified design incorporating a Afterwards, in the course of an patent regulator which automatically 11,000-mile tour of North America, changed over from non-compound it crossed the Rocky Mountains starting to full compound as it was unassisted with its train. It returned advanced. Weight 591 tons. Driving to Britain with commemorative wheels 7 ft. Cylinders: one HP 19 ,-: name-plates and an American-type 26 in,, two 21 26 in. Pressure locomotive bell, as shown here. 2001b. Weight 84 tons 9 cwt. Driving MIDLAND RAILWAY, 4-4-0 COMPOUND EXPRESS LOCO, NO. 1000. REBUILT 1914 wheels 6 ft. 9 in.

Designed by John Aspinall, this was One of the twenty "Royal Scoll" ihc first engine to be built at Norwich engmes built at Derby, shown with COLLECTORS' MINIATURES COLLECTORS' MINIATURES works and the prototype of its class, original tender. In April 1928 No, of which 330 were built between 6113 "Cameronian" (one of the 1889 and 1911. Frequently used as Glasgow-built engines) established a express engines on main line services, world record non-stop run of 40K the class was designed to haul heavy miles between Euston and Glasgow, passenger loads over the steeply In March 1931, after a disastrous graded L. & Y. branch lines in the derailment at Leighton Buzzard, Pennincs, including a 15 mile stretch thought to have been caused by on the Salford to Colne branch smoke drifting down the boiler and where the gradient averages I in 118. obscuring the view ahead, deflector Some of these engines served for plates were fitted to these engines more than 60 years. Weight 56 tons. (see "Royal Scott"). The "Scots" Driving wheels 5 ft. 8 in. Cylinders were much improved by Sir William 17! in, .• 26 in,, and 18 in. x 26 in. Stanierand were renumbered 46100- Pressure 160 lb. 46170 by British Railways, Cylinders (3) 18 in. X 26 in. Pressure 250 lb. LM.S.R. CLASS 5P NO, 616 "THE GIRL GUIDE" AS BUILT (DERBY) 1930 LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE RLY, 1 4 1 SIDE TANK ENGINE NO. 1008, 1889

Jointly operated by ihc London and Introduced by Sir William Sianier South Western, and by the Midland in 1934, simultaneously with the COLLECTORS' MINIATURES COLLECTORS- MINIATURES Railway, the Somerset and Dorset celebrated mixed traffic "Black main line ran from Bath to Bourne• Fives", these 4-6-0 express passenger mouth, with some very severe gradi• engines were designed with capacity ents crossing the Mendips. Responsi• roughly equal to that of the "Baby bility for working the line was Scots" but with taper boilers. As divided; track maintenance, signal• one of the last of the 191 members of ling, station premises, etc., were the class "Kolhapur" achieved fame provided by the L. & S.W.R., while in 1967 while working from Ihc Midland Railway provided and over Ais Gill lo Carlisle. After maintained the locomotives. Stan• withdrawal in 1967 she was pur• dard Midland express engines were chased by 7029 Clun Castle Ltd. and modified by providing them with restored at the Company's Tyseley smaller wheels (6 ft. diameter) to depot to the condition shown. cope with the steep inclines, reaching Weight 134-^ tons. Driving wheels 1 in 50 between Bath and Evercreech 6 ft. 9 in. Cylinders (3) 17 in. x 26 in. Junction. No. 77 was built at Derby Pressure 225 lb. SOMERSET a DORSET JOINT RLY. 4-4-0 EXPRESS LOCO. NO. 77, 1907 in 1907-

• Tliirt) of these engines were built All improved design Lommissioncd by C. B, Collett between 1927 and rollowing upon ilie success of the 1930, and for 35 years they worked COLLECTORS MINIATURES COLLECTORS' MINIATURES "Princess" class Pacifies. The lirsl Ihc heaviest express passenger traffic live engines were given fully stream• on the West of England main line lined casings and a special blue between Paddington and Birming• livery for working ihe new "Coron• ham. "King George V was the first ation Scot" high speed service engine of the new class, having a between London and Glasgow, nominal tractive effort greater than named for the Coronation of His that of any other British 4-6-0 Majesty King George VI in 1937. express engine and even exceeding In July of that year No. 6220. at the rated value of the "Pacific" trials, attained a record speed of locomotives of the other British 114 m.p.h., with train. Designed by systems. She received the double Sir William Stanicr. Weight 105 ton's chimney and other modifications 5 cwi. Cylinders (4) 16] in. • 2« in. shown here, after nationalisation, Pressure 250 lb. Tractive effort and is now preserved at Hereford. 40,000 lb. Driving wheels 6 ft. 9 in. Weight 89 tons. Pressure 2?0 lb. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, KING CLASS NO. L.M.S.R, CLASS 7P (CORONATION) NO. e22\N ELIZABETH" BUILT 1937 Tractive elTort 40.300 lb. ] "KING GEORGE V", 1927

Of the I7i engines of this class built These engines had larger cylinders, between 1923 and 1950. the last piston valves and heating surface hatch comprised Nos. 7000-37 (7037, COLLECTORS' MINIATURES COLLECTORS- MINIATURES than the "Princess" class from the last of the class, was also the which they were developed. The last express engine built at the driving wheel diameter was also famous locomotive works, appro• increased by 3 inches. In all 38 priately named "Swindon"). Others engines were bnill, 14 of them of this batch were named "G. J. without streanilincd casings. In 19.39 Churchward" (No. 7017) and "Great No- 6234. nev^l\d with double Western" (No. 7007). Two years chimney, handled a train of twenty before her withdrawal in 1966 coaches (610 tons behind the tender) "Clun Castle" worked the high over the 102 miles between Crewe speed special between Exeter and and Carlisle, including the ascents Bristol - more than 40 years after of Shap and Bcattock. in 118 the introduction of this class. After minutes. "Queen Elizabeth" was withdrawal she was purchased by repainted in red and gold livery in 7029 Clun Castle Ltd. and restored March 1941, and in August 1944 at the Company's Tyseley depot to she was again repainted in plain L.M.S.R. CLASS 7P "PACIFIC" NO. 6221 "QUEEN ELIZABETH". MARCH 19-11 the condition shown here. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CASTLE CLASS NO. 7029 "CLUN CASTLE". 1949 black.

Developed by C. B. Collelt from These engines, designed by G, J. Churchward's famous "Star" class, Churchward, retained the outside Ihe "Castles" soon established them• COLLECTORS' MINIATURES COLLECTORS MINIATURES frames associated with Victorian selves as one of the most famous and locomotive practise but they in• successful locomotive designs ever corporated the important advances produced. The pioneer engine of the tapered-barrel boiler and "Caerphillj Castle" entered service the Belpaire firebox. The basic design in August 1923 and is now preserved originated with the "Badminton" at the Science Museum, London. class of 1897, followed by the During the exchange trials of 1924 •Atbara" class of 1900, both with and 1925 "Pendennis Castle" estab• parallel boilers. "City of Truro", lished new performance records, built in 1903, achieved a speed of working over the L.N.E.R. route from 100 m.p.h., hauling an Ocean Mail Kings Cross to Leeds. After with• special, in May 1904. In regular drawal in 1964 she was purchased service the class was used to haul the privately. Weight 79 ions 17 cwt. Cornish Riviera Exprcssnon-siop Cylinders (4) 16 in. 26 in. Pressure between Paddington and Piymoiiih 225 lb. Tractive effort 31,625 Ib. (246 miles) in 267 minutes. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CITY CLASS NO. 3440 "CITY OF TRURO". 1903 GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CASTLE CLASS NO, 4079 "PENDENNIS CASTLE"

As c;irlv as 1818 a horse-worked The class vva> iiiiroduccd in ]')M) tramway, known as the Welshpool for medium freighl and passenger Iron Road, was constructed to COLLECTORS' MINIATURES COLLECTORS' MINIATURES operation, Ihe wheel arrangement draw tramway tubs from the quarry being unusual for the G.W.R. Some in Brook Street to the Newtown of these engines were used by British Branch of the Shropshire Union Railways for passenger duties on Ihe Canal. The line was closed in 1854. former Somerset & Dorset line In 1899 the Welshpool and Llanfair between Templeconibe and High- Railway Company was incorporated bridge. 3205. built at Swindon in and an operating agreement was 1946. was withdrawn from Temple- entered into with the Cambrian combe in May 1965 and is now in Railways Company which undertook service on ihe lo provide, maintain and renew the at Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Weight rolling stock. "The Earl" and "The 42 tons 8 cwt. Driving wheels 5 ft. Countess" (Nos. I and 2) were built 2 in. Cvlindcrs (2| 171 in, • 24 in. in 1902, and the 2 ft, 6 in, gauge line Pressure 200 lb. Tracli\ elforl was opened in 1903. running from 20.155 lb. Welshpool station to Llanfair CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS, BEYER PEACOCK TANK ENGINE NO. 2 "THE COUNTESS" GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. "2251" CLASS 0 6 0 MIXED TRAFFIC NO. 3205 Caci'cinion (9 miles). At the grouping, "The Earl" and Three of these unusual engines were "The Countess" (Nos. I and 2 of the built for the Listowel line in 1886, COLLECTORS- MINIATURES former Welshpool Railway Com• by the Engine Company. COLLECTORS- MINIATURES pany) became G.W.R. Nos. 822 and The Listowel & Ballybtinion was the 823. Both were rebuilt at Swindon in only Lartigue installation ever to 1929 and 1930. with new smokebox employ locomotive traction. The and boiler fittings. Regular passenger locomotive, weighing 6 tons, was traffic ceased in 1931 however, carried on three coupled axles with although stone continued to be cylinders placed between the boilers, carried by rail, for transhipment to and the driver and fireman had standard gauge wagons at Welsh• each a separate firebox. Small trans• pool, until the closing of the quarries verse wheels located with the two in 1939. In 1956 the line was dosed guide rails near the base of the altogether by British Railways trestles, thus keeping the locomotives (Western Region) but public pas• and rolling stock in an upright senger services were resumed in position. The line was dismantled 1963 by the present Preservation and the engines were broken up in Company. Weight 20 tons. Pressure 1924. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. BEYER PEACOCK TANK LOCO. NO. 823 -COUNTESS" 150 lb. LISTOWEL a BALLYBUNION RLY. 0 3 0 TWIN LOCOMOTIVE NO. 1 (LARTIGUE)

Weighing less than 10 tons "Taly- With the exception of No. 15, an llyn" was one of two locomotives 0-6-OT from the former Manx COLLECTORS- MINIATURES ordered from Fletcher, Jennings & Northern Railway, all engines con• COLLECTORS' MINIATURES Co. of the Lowca Engine Works. structed for use on this 3 ft. gauge Whitehaven, for the opening of the line have been of the 2-4-OT type. line in 1865. With her sister engine Nos. 1-13, built between 1873 and "Dolgoch" she handled all traffic 1910. established the standard design on this 2 ft. 3 in. gauge railway, and Nos. 1-9 formed the original running the bi miles from Towyn class. Weighing 18 tons 4 cwt.. with Wharf lo Abergynolwyn, for 86 3 ft. 9 in, driving wheels and 2 ft. years thereafter. The railway was bogie wheels. "Fenella" develops saved from extinction by the forma* 4.930 lb, of tractive elTori at 120 lb. tion of Ihe Pre• pressure (cylinders II in, x 18 in.). servation Society in 1950, since when The line closed to all traffic in it has been much improved. November 1965 but reopened on the "Talyllyn" was rebuilt in 1957/8 3rd June, 1967, Subsequently the by Gibbons Bros. Ltd, ai Brierlev engines were restored to their original Hill, Staffs. livery of "Island" green. TALYLLYN RAILWAY. SADDLE TANK LOCOMOTIVE NO. 1 •TALYLLYN" BUILT 1865 ISLE OF MAN RAILWAY, BEYER PEACOCK 2-4-OT NO. 8 "FENELLA" BUILT 1873

Rising to a height of 3,493 ft., with a Designed by Wilson Worsdell, 115 gauge of 2 ft. 7-i in., this is the only engines of this class were built COLLECTORS- MINIATURES rack railway in Great Britain. The between 1906 and 1923. becoming COLLECTORS- MINIATURES rackrail system used was invented Class J27 on the L.N.E.R. With by Dr. Roman S, Abt, whose name their large 5 ft. 6 in, diameter it bears, and the locomotives were boilers (unique for an 0-6-0 until built by the Swiss Locomotive and 1926) they proved capable of much Engine Works at Winterthur. The heavy work throughout the L.N.E.R. locomotive drive is only to the rack system. BR No. 65894 (as L.N.E.R. pinion shafts, with cranks driving No, 2392) was the last of this Class the extremities of the shafts, and not to be built and is now preserved by lo the carrying wheels. The engines the N.E. Locomotive Preservation have inclined boilers and always face Group for work on the North up the mountain, "Snowdon" was Yorkshire Moors Railway. Weight built in 1896 with two cylinders, 47 tons (tender 37 tons). Driving 300 600 mm. and a working wheels 4 ft, 7| in. Cylinders (2) pressure of 200 lb. Weight 17^ 18J in, y 26 in. Pressure 180 lb. tons. Tractive effort 24,642 lb. . 0 4 2 STANDARD RACK LOCO, NO, 4 SNOWDON" NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY, CLASS P3 0-6-0 GOODS LOCOMOTIVE NO. 790

The Feslimog Railway is one of Known as "improved Directors", the oldest railway companies in the eleven of these engines, designed by COLLECTORS' MINIATURES world, having been formed by Act J. G, Robinson, were buili between COLLECTORS' MINIATURES of Parliament of 1832 for the carriage 1919 and Ihe end of 1922. numbered of slate from Blaenau Festiniog to 501-11, "Butler-Henderson" was the Portmadoc Harbour, for shipment first of them to leave Gorton and aboard coastal vessels. Steam trac• is now preserved at Loughborough. tion was introduced in 1863, and in They were slightly larger than the 1865 the Railway was authorised to original Class HE engines and they carry passengers. Passenger services mtroduced a new type of standard were discontinued in 1939. with the cab with side windows, giving them outbreak of war, and they were not a notably different appearance from resumed until July 1955 when this the original "Directors". In their engine was restored. Weight (as later L.N.E.R. livery, the G.C.R. built) 24 tons. Driving wheels 2 ft. engines were given the prefix 5000. K in. Cylinders (4) 9\. x 14 in. Weight 61 tons 3 cwt. Cylinders ; 150 lb. Gauge 1 ft. 11^ in. 20 in. X 26 in. Pressure 180 lb. Tractive eflfort 19,645 lb. FESTINIOG RAILWAY. FAIRLIE ARTICULATED LOCO. NO, 3 '"EARL OF MERIONETH ' GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY. CLASS 11F EXPRESS LOCO. NO. 506 "BUTLER-HENDERSON" In all, 52 engines of ihis Class «erc Consirucied by Ncilson & Co. in built beiween 1922 and 1925. ilie 1886 for ihc Edinburgh exhibition, COLLECTORS MINIATURES firsi two oftliem (Nos, 1470 "Great but embodying several features COLLECTORS' MINIATURES Norlhern" and 1471 "Sir Frederick characteristic of Dugald Drummond Banbury", soon lo be renumbered (then locomotive superintendent of 4470 and 4471) by tlie Great Ihc C.R.), No. 123 look part in the Northern Railway. In the 1925 1888 Race to Scotland between the Interchange Trials with the G.W.R., Last and West Coast routes, attain• 4474 "Victor Wild" was matched ing speeds in excess of 70 m.p.h. against GWR 4079 "Pendennis Renumbered 1123 in 1914. for a Castle": the latter, with a boiler number of years it was used only for pressure of 225 lb,, proving notably hauling the Directors' saloon, but more efficient and economical. Shown in the 1930s (in L.M.S. livery) ii here is Ihe original "Flying Scots• again saw passenger service, hauling man" as seen at the British Empire local trains between Perth and Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. Dundee. Withdrawn in 1935 the Weight 92 tons 9 cwt. Cylinders (3) engine may now be seen, restored to 20 in. 26 in. Pressure 180 lb. Caledonian livery, at ihe Glasgow LONDON ft NORTH EASTERN RLY. CLASS AI NO. 4472 'FLYING SCOTSMAN". 1924 Tractive effort 29,835 Ih. Museum of Transport. , 4~2-2 EXPRESS PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE NO. 123. 1886

In 1927. as a result of the 1925 lamous as the first 4-6-0 type to Interchange Trials, two AI Class cnler service in Britain. 15 of these COLLECTORS' MINIATURES COLLECTORS' MINIATURES Pacifies were fitted with new boilers huge engines were ordered from carrying 220 lb, pressure, which Sharp Stewart & Co. in 1894, became the standard for the re- straight olfthe drawing board. They boilering of existing Pacifies and for proved to be splendid engines and, new Pacific construction. As rebuilt, although intended for goods traffic these engines were reclassified A3 they were commonly used on pas• (BR Class 7P6F). In 1928 a non-stop senger trains during the tourist service - the world's longest - was season. The centre driving wheels inaugurated over the whole of the were tlangclcss and these loco• 392-8 mile route from Kings Cross motives remained virtually unaltered to Edinburgh, when 8-wheel corridor until they were taken out of service tenders, 25 ft. 10 in. long, were built beiween 1929 and 1940. Weight to provide facilities for changing 70 tons 13 cwt. Driving wheels 5 ft. the engine-crews en route without 3 in. Cylinders (2) 20 in. •; 26 in. stopping the train. Weight 9fi ions Pressure 175 lb. Tractive effort at 5 cwl. 85",; W.[>. 24.556 lb. L.N.E.R. CLASS A3 PACIFIC EXPRESS LOCO. "FLYING SCOTSMAN" AS REBUILT 4 6 0 HEAVY GOODS LOCOMOTIVE NO. 103 ("JONES GOODS")

Designed for higher boiler pressures ("his was a superheated dcvclopmcni ihan the A3 Pacifies, this Class was by Thomas Hcywood of an earlier COLLECTORS' MINIATURF5 COLLECTORS' MINIATURES introduced in 1935 when "Silver design by William Pickersgill. origin• Link" left the Doncaster Works ally introduced in 1899. Six of the (the first four engines were given superheated versions were built by silver liveries for use with the Silver North British at their Hydepark Jubilee high-speed service). Eventu• Works in Glasgow, in 1920. and two ally 35 engines were built. In July more were built in 1921 at the 1938 "IVlallard" established the world Company's own works at Inverurie, speed record for steam traction with Aberdeen. In 1958 the last engine to a maximum speed of 126 m.p.h. She remain in service was restored to is now on Display at the National G.N.S.R. livery and later placed in Railway Museum at York. Weight ihe Glasgow Museum of Transport. 103 tons. C\linders(3) 181 in. 26in, Weighi 86 tons 1 cwt. (full). Driving Pressure 250 lb. Tractive effort wheels 6 ft. I in. Cvlinders (2) .•i5.455 lb. Driving wheels 6 ft. 8 in. 18 in. • 26 in. Pressure 165 lb- IB-R. classification 8P6F). Tractive effort 16,184 lb.

L.N.E.R. CLASS A4 PACIFIC EXPRESS LOCO, NO. 446S "MALLARD". 1937 GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RLY. CLASS F 4-4 0 NO. 49 "GORDON HIGHLANDER"

Designed b\r Vinccn: Ra\en for One t.r four siinilar classes (T3. Ihc North Lasicni Rai]vva> as Class 16, X2 and X6) which together COLLECTORS' MINIATURES COLLECTORS' MINIATURES r2, the first of these rugged loco• comprised William Adams' last motives entered service in 1913. In uroup of express locomotives for all 120 were built by the N.E.R. Ihe L.S.W.R. In all, sixty were and ultimately passed into B.R. built between 1890 and 1896 and ownership, bearing the brunt of the at the time of entering service the heavy mineral traffic for which they X2 engines were the most powerful were designed: often hauling trains express type in the world. Due to of up to 1.1)00 tons at 25 m.p.h. skilful design and fine workmanship No. 2238 (as BR No. 63395) sur• they were also amongst the most vived until the end of steam and is economical. No. 563 remained in now preserved by the North Eastern service until 1945 and is now Locomotive Preservation Group. preserved at the National Railway Weight 66 tons (tender 44 tons). Museum. York. Driving wheels 6 ft. Cylinders (2) 20 in. • 26 in. Pres• 1 in. Bogie wheels 3 ft. 7 in. Cylinders sure 180 lb. Tractive effort 28,800 lb. 19 in. :< 26 in. Pressure 175 lb. Driving wheels 4 ft. 7{ in. L.N.E.R, CLASS Q6 OB-0 HEAVY GOODS (MINERAL TRAFFIC) LOCO. NO. 2238 LONDON a SOUTH WESTERN RLY. CLASS T3 EXPRESS PASSENGER LOCO. NO. 563 Maunsell's last design of express The last of the twelve B.R. standard passenger train, these were the most designs introduced by R. A. Riddles, COLLECTORS- MINIATURES powerful 4-4-Os ever built in this the "Standard Nines" were intended COLLECTORS' MINIATURES country, despite the fact thai they for heavy mineral freight traffic. were constructed very econnomically 251 were built between 1954 and from existing patterns and tools 1960. All were painted in unlined used for locomotives of the "King black except No. 92220. the last new Arthur" and "Lord Nelson" classes. constructed for Designed for work on the difficult British Railways, which was given Hastings line of the former S.E. & the "Great Western" passenger green C.R. the "Schools" later hauled the livery adopted by B.R. (these engines fast Portsmouth trains and eventu• were occasionally used for fast ally they replaced the "King Arthurs" passenger traffic, one of them having on the Bournemouth expresses. worked the "Flying Scotsman" ex• Weight 67 tons 2 cwt. Driving press at a recorded speed of 90 wheels 6 ft. 7 in. Cylinders (3) 16i in m,p.h.). Weight (loco.) 86 tons 14 X 26 in. Pressure 220 lb. Tractive cwt. Pressure 250 lb. Tractive ellbrt SOUTHERN RAILWAY. "SCHOOLS" CLASS EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE NO. 928 "STOWE" effort 25,135 lb. 39.667 lb. BRITISH RAILWAYS. CLASS 9 HEAVY FREIGHT NO- 92220 "EVENING STAR"

The famous "King Arthur" Class Designed by E. C, Bredin, three owes its origin to the L, AS.W.R, engines, named for the Queens of COLLECTORS- MINIATURES Class N15, designed by Robert Ireland, were built for working the COLLECTORS' MINIATURES Urie in 1918. In 1925 R. E. Maunsell heavy expresses over the main line brought out an improved version of between Dublin and Cork. With an this design with higher boiler pres• overall length of 67 ft. 9 in. and a sure and long travel valves. In all, total heating surface of 2,338 sq. ft. 54 engines were built (24 at East- they were the largest and most power• leigh, 30 at Glasgow) between 1925 ful locomotives in Ireland. They bore and 1927. Withdrawal commenced a striking resemblance to the rebuilt in 1953 and by 1962 the Class was "Royal Scots" of the L.M.S.R. and extinct. No. 783 is shewn as equipped they were the last new steam loco• for experimental smoke deflector motives lo be constructed for ihe tests in 1936. In the 1930s engines of Great Southern (later Coras lompair this Class hauled the fast boat trains Eireann). Weight 135 tons (full). between Victoria and Dover. Weight Driving wheels 6 ft. 7 in. Cylinders 138 tons 10 cwt. Pressure 200 lb. (3) 18+ in. X 28 in. Pressure 225 lb. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. "KING ARTHUR" CLASS NO. 783 "SIR GILLEMERE". 1925 Tractive efifort 25,300 lb. Tractive effort 33,000 lb. GREAT SOUTHERN RLY. 'QUEEN" CLASS EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE NO. I

Mr. Bullcid's "Merchant Navy" Constructed for service in areas Class, from which the ^'West where water is either scarce or else COLLECTORS- MINIATURES Country" Class was developed as chemically unsuitable for use in COLLECTORS' MINIATURES a light-weight variation, introduced steam locomotive boilers, i.e., by the Pacific wheel arrangement to reason of impurities which might the lines of the S.R, for the first leave heavy deposits or have a time. These engines also broke with corrosive effect, these engines were tradition in their use of patent disc specially designed by Henschel lo wheels, chain-driven radial valve condense their own exhaust steam in gear and Ihe adoption of a new a heat-exchanger, the condensate numbering system based on Conti• being then fed back to the boiler. nental practice (2 leading axles, The first of them entered service on I trailing axle and 3 - i.e. "C" - the 42-inch gauge lines of S.A.R, in driving axles), 110 were built, from 1953 and eventually ninety loco• 1945 onwards, "Blackmore Vale" motives were built, all of which are being now preserved by the Bulleid still in service. Weight 123 tons. Pacific Preservation Society. Weight Horsepower 3,000 (PSi), Maximum SOUTHERN RAILWAY. "WEST COUNTRY" CLASS NO. Z1C123 "BLACKMORE VALE" 86 tons. Pressure 250 lb. Tractive speed 60 m.p.h. SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY, HENSCHEL EXPRESS PASSENGER LOCO. BUILT 1953 effort 27,715 lb.

Designed by O. V, S. Bulleid, Built in 1937 for the metre-gauge following the success of his larger railways of Central Brazil, this COLLECTORS- MINIATURES COLLECTORS' MINIATURES "Merchant Navy" Class Pacifies, design has proved extremely suc• these engines entered service with cessful over many years for coping fully air-smoothed casings from with the difficult conditions en• engine lo tender, painted in the countered there. The many gradients Southern's pre-war livery of mala• and curves of this mountainous chite green. Commencing in 1957 system demand engines with low a number were rebuilt by British axle loads, whereas high speeds Railways, with conventional Wal- would be impractical: it was to schaerts valve gear in place of the overcome these problems that this original specially designed totally type was developed and built by enclosed gear. No. 34051 is now part Rheinstahl Transporttcchnik. of of the National Railway Reserve Kassel. The first of its class was Collection. Weight 90 tons (origin• already in service in 1901, and the ally 86 tons). Driving wheels 6 ft. example shown represents the most 2 in. Cylinders (3) 16| in. x 24 in, advanced version. Weight 117-5 tons. CENTRAL RAILWAY (BRAZIL). BAUART MALLET ARTICULATED LOCO, NO. 1307 BRITISH RAILWAYS. "BATTLE OF BRITAIN" NO. 34051 "WINSTON CHURCHILL" Pressure 250 lb. 1,900 h,p. (PSi). Maximum speed 30 m.p.h. The firsI steam locomotive in the Experimental design biuli in 1956 by North West arrived in Si. Paul, in Fried, Krupp, Essen, incorporating 1861, on a Mississippi River steam• a number of innovative features. COLLECTORS MINIATURES boat. Although in fact a coalburner, Only two examples were built, both it was designed as a simulated wood- of them of 3-cylinder design with burner, complete with spark arrester drilled cylinder block cast in one and logs. Named for the line's Chief piece as an integral part of the completely welded frame; the boiler Engineer, Colonel William Crooks, and firebox were also welded. No. this little engine made its first 10001 was built with oil-assisted passenger run to Ihe village of St. firing equipment, whereas No. 10002 Anthony {now Minneapolis) on June was fitted for main oil-firing. These 28th, 1862, marking the completion were the last new developments of the first ten miles of railroad in introduced in Germany for heavy Minnesota. Built by Smith & Jackson, express steam locomotive service. Paterson, New Jersey. Weight (en• Weight 119 tons. Horsepower 2.900 gine and tender) 102.200 lb. Overall (PSi). Driving wheels 2m. Maximum length 51 ft. Pressure 110 lb. Tractive speed 88 m.p.h. ST. PAUL a PACIFIC RAILROAD. 4 i 0 BALOON-STACK NO. 1 "WM. CROOKS' power 4,700 lb. DEUTSCHE BUNDESBAHN, CLASS 10 EXPRESS PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE NO. 10001

Impressed by tlic colourful liveries of For practical purposes the age of British engines, Fairfax Harrison. steam railway locomotive traction COLLECTORS- MINIATURES President of the Southern Railway, can be said to have ended in the lale COLLECTORS MINIATURES decided thai his system also should 1950s. In Britain, No. 92220 "Even• have handsomely painted passenger ing Star" (see card No. 41), last of locomolives. by contrast with the her class and the last steam engine plain black generally associated with to be buill for B.R., entered service American practice. Built in 1926 by in 1960. and in other European the American Locomotive Company, countries the story was the same. No- 1401. first of its Clas^^, was This all-welded passenger tank loco• assigned to the Washington-Atlanta motive, built in 1955 by Rheinstahl section and in April 1945 it was one AG Transportlechnik (Henschcll, of ten Ps4s used to haul President represents the final stage of develop• Roosevelt's funeral train from Warm ment of the steam locomotive in Springs. Ga.. to Washington. Weight Germany, Weighing 93-4 tons and (engine and lender) 561,600 lb. developing 1,170 h.p. (PSi), these Cvlinders 27 in. 2H in. Pressure engines were capable of a maximum 210 lb. Tractive power 45,(100 Ih, speed of 62/63 m.p.h. SOUTHERN RAILWAY (U.S.A.) Ps4 PACIFIC PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE NO DEUTSCHE BUNDESBAHN. CLASS 66 2-6 4 PASSENGER TANK LOCO. NO, 001, 1955

Originally buill as heavy shimiing/ The success of the Liverpool and Manchester use with the armies abroad, and of many of switching engines, for marshalling COLLECTORS' MINIATURES yard work on the former Prussian line destroyed all doubt as to the their experienced personnel whose places State Railway, this design proved so possibilities of the railway system. were taken by willing but inadequately successful that more than 1.000 trained staff. By 1918 the problems of supply, locomotives were eventually con• Branches were made from the main line to structed. They were used for mineral Warrington on the south, and to Bolton on repair and reconstruction of Britain's railways traffic, heavy freight and mixed the north. Later, Birmingham was united to had reached such proportions that the Select goods haulage, and even for local branch passenger traffic. As late as Warrington, and consequently with Committee on Transport, appointed by the 1972 there were still more than 40 Liverpool and Manchester, by tlie Grand House of Commons, advised that the organ• engines in service with the Deutsche isation of the railways could not be allowed Bundesbahn. No. 094 564-5 was Junction Railway formed in 1837. built in 1914 by F. Schichau Gmbh.. In 1837 also the London and Birmingham to return to its pre-war position and that Elbing, as part of the original batch, unification was greatly to be desired and later rebuilt with some modifi• Railway was opened, and the Manchester cations. Weight 84-9 tons. Horse• and Birmingham Railway in 1840. "whether the ownership be in public or power 1,070 (PSi). Maximum speed PRUSSIAN STATE RAILWAY. CLASS TI6 0-10 0 SIDE TANK LOCO. NO. 094 564-5 private hands". 45 m.p.h. All of these railway companies were amalgamated with the London and North The result was the formation, at 1st January, Western Railway upon its formation in 1846. 1923, of the London, Midland and Scottish which in turn became part of the London, Railway (L.M.S.R.), the London & North Midland and Scottish Railway upon the Eastern Railway (L.N.E.R.), and the Southern In 1937 the Deutsche Rcichsbahn grouping of Britains' railways in 1923. COLLECTORS' MINIATURES commissioned the building ofa new Railway (S.R.). Alone of the former great class of locomotives, to be designed companies, the Great Western Railway primarily for high-speed working. The period from 1850 until the outbreak of The result was the well-known 05 the first World War in 1914 can be said to retained its identity and its essential series of which three examples were character. built, by Borsig. Berlin, all fitted have been the Golden Age of Steam. vviih apparatus for steamcoal-dusl firing. Upon withdrawal in 1960 one With theoutbreak of World War 1 however, in In September 1939 Great Britain once again of these engines was fully overhauled and presented to the Museum in August, 1914, the Government took control declared war upon Germany, and total Nuremberg, Weight 125 tons. Horse• of therailways and their ancillary services, Government control was once more extended power 1,850 (PSi). Maximum speed creating for this purpose a committee of over the entire railway network of the 120 m.p.h. (The next following design. Class 06, comprised the most General Managers known as the Railway country. This time there was to be no_ reprieve powerful German steam locomotive Executive Committee. and in 1948 the four group railways, after type, weighing 127 tons and de• veloping 3,020 h,p, PSi). precisely twenty five years of existence, were DEUTSCHE REICHSBAHN. CLASS 05 EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE NO. 05003 BUILT 1937 The demands of waralso stripped therailways absorbed by British Railways under of rolling stock and materials of all kinds for national isation.