All steamed up

UK steam buffs all probably know about the Swanage Railway

This is a scenic pic

I was just passing on my way to Studland & couldn't bear to pass-up a photo (or 50) of a classic.

This is 34070 “Manston”  a Battle of Britain class Light Pacific

These Light Pacific locos were designed for low maintenance & running costs by Oliver Bulleid

The “stream lining” is not really aerodynamic, its actually intended to allow the loco to be cleaned using the carriage rolling stock mechanical cleaning machines

She was built at the Brighton Works in November 1947 as 21C170 & the last built at that works for Southern Railways before nationalisation.

We (Bluebell ) have one of those, although it is a West Country class. Chain driven and a bit leaky, (british M/Cs again?) :-

Blackmore Vale.

Also:-

Sir Archibald Sinclair , a rebuilt West Country/Battle of Britain class,Southern Pacific.

Those  Bulleid chains were a good idea, on paper, but a SOAB to work on

Its a shame it all went the wrong way with the reduced maintenance & running costs on the Bulleid'd LP's. 

Sir Archie  does look the part with his clothes off,  more like a proper engine & nicely smoother lines than all the other designs of those days.  

The opposite of all these classic steamers -- the Japanese bullet train

For me, the best locomotive ever is the class 55 Deltic with it's 2 stroke Napier twin diesels. The most powerful British locomotive engine ever, with  triangular cranks and opposed pistons. Unfortunately...she put all the steamers to bed....

There are six left for preservation - My favourate one was and still is - Royal scotts Grey.

Steve

Warms the cockles...

For streamlined steam, I liked the NY Central 4-6-4 Hudsons:

This style not as much for me:

And they were awfully sexy "naked" too!

Heartbeat country - Goathland.

Good job Jan.Thanks for posting.

Great photo!  (As are many of the other Euro Rail pics!)

The future as then...

We have these down the road.

ok guys, you are clearly train "nerds" in a nice way !

for the uneducated among us, what is the significance of the number sequences?

ie 4-6-4 or 2-8-8-2 ?

It refers to the wheel arrangement.

4-6-4 is 4 bogie wheels 6 driving wheels and 4 more bogies looking side on 2-3-2. oo-OOO-oo

2-8-8-2 = 2 bogie 8 drive 8 drive and 2 bogie. side view = o-OOOO-OOOO-o  Google  "Mallet"

H,

  That's a very good description, and well shown

Many thanks. Thought it might have also been number of cylinders on a diesel engine - Der !!

This is an interesting loco. LMS Turbomotive, as the name indicates a turbine powered vehicle, apparently one of the more successful turbine designs that's not saying much though.It is one of the better looking though, they were converted back to conventional pistons a drive systems, and named Princess Anne,but was involved in the Harrow and Wealdstone accident in 1952.

This is a shot of a model of British Rail GT3 Gas Turbine loco.

closest i ever got to being a train enthusiast was the childhood routine of owning a hornby railway set.

Unfortunately it took second place to the scalextric

How about this lads, for the rail enthusiasts and the cycling fraternity !!

Taken early this morning, don't know what the loco was but it pulled 6 coaches with ease, a nice little engine.  

Taken with a Canon 1DX which has amazing dynamic range - I haven't 'tweaked" this image in any way except for converting from raw and applying some mandatory Unsharp Mask.

And a couple more of Sir Archibald Sinclair to add to BigH47's earlier photos

Superb photo Jamie, amazing colours

+1 . Fantastic shot