#LNER A2/1 Pacific

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Tonight’s engine, the LNER Thompson A2/1 Pacific!

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So I obsess over engines on like a weekly basis, but heres some.

1. The most recent:GWR River class, specifically No.69 Avon, who will be aplearing in -A Screech in the Night' bc screw you I'm saving her.

2.LNER A2/1. Thompson's planned successor to the V2. Just quirky, oddly lovely engines.

3.Earl of Cadwor -a GWR engine fit with a unique cab and boiler for use on hills. It was later converted back but look at her! Yes I'm an LNER fangirl why do you ask?

4. Highland Railway Clan Class. The most beautiful british 4-6-0s. Just yes.

5. Gresley P1. Cackles in tractive effort. A 2-8-2 version of the A1 pacific. Yeeesssss.

6. This friendly little mogul is converted into a diesel switcher in Louisiana, and served in that condition until at least the late 70s. 11/10 shes doing her best <3

7. L&YR class 7 Atlantic's. Nicknamed high fliers due to their abnormally high boiler postition and high speed, these were regularly clocked at over 90mph, and two claimed 100 before turo did. Also my beta calls them giraffes.

8. QJ. Just the steam engine. Wonderful. Best thing China ever made. I want one. Theres actually three in America, and I need to see them.

9.Turbomotive my beloved. Found a custom oo model on ebay and I've been in love ever since. Crews called her Gracie Fields (after a famous singer at the time) due to her unique exhaust beat.

10.GT3. A gas turbine Loco, this is just so precious. An engine that was loved by crews, but she took so long to build modern styles of diesels were already around. Imagine if she had been built quickly.

Alright people! I have a question for you all.

What locomotive (Steam/Diesel/Electric/Whatever) do you love like it's a favourite of yours, or love so much that it could almost be call an obsession?

(That's a bad thing btw)

For me it's the:

NBR H Class Atlantics

GWR 4000 Class

PRR T1

LNER A1/A3's

VR S Class

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Post war locomotive classes of the LNER. Part 1: Steam locomotives

I’ve now finally reached the part of been wanting the cover in a coherent blog post for a while. locomotives.

all the number sequences mentioned are relevant after 1953

Arthur Peppercorn locomotives:

B3 4-6-0 No.701-740 The final development of LNER 4-6-0s, featuring 6ft 8in drivers and a 250psi tapered boiler.

K7 2-6-0 No.1913-1999

A development on the Thompson/Peppercorn K1, this loco features the same cylinders and wheels, but a shorter wheelbase for working on Branchlines. As a first for LNER locomotives it also features a tender-cab to allow for easier tender first running in adverse weather. (the classification is pushed from K6 to K7 due to already having a freelance pre grouping locomotive with that classification on the roster)

L2 2-6-4 No.9100-9199

An improvement on the Thompson L1, utilizing 5ft 8in drivers to give a higher turn of speed.

M1 4-8-2 No.300-339

The culmination of a concept that was first proposed by Gresley in 1938, the need for an 8-coupled 6ft 8in design was identified because 8 coupled designs like the P2 proved better at maintaining speed when ascending grades over a more powerful pacific, had it been built this design would have had a 250 psi boiler, possibly of a shared design with Peppercorn’s pacifics, and some 40,000-45,000lbs of tractive effort.

O3 2-8-0 No. 6000-6199

largely based on the Thompson O1, these locomotives however were built brand new and featured a number of detail differences.

O7/2 2-8-0 No. 3000–3468 (mixed in with O7/1 “WDs”)

a rebuilding scheme of the 469 “WD” 2-8-0s brought into LNER stock after WW2 with LNER standard cylinders, cab, valve gear and 100a boilers.

Non-LNER steam locomotives adopted into stock

Yorkshire engine company J95 0-6-0ST No.7350-7549

Arthur Peppercorn’s original plan had been to order additional numbers of class J50. however after trialing a standard YEC 0-6-0 saddle tank based on an earlier Hunslet design the board of the LNER were impressed enough with its performance to order an additional 199 as the standard shunting locomotive.

USATC Ex-S160 O8 2-8-0 No.5756-5955

In addition to the 469 WDs brought into LNER stock an additional purchase of 200 surplus S160 2-8-0s was undertaken. These were classified as O8 and became known as “Texans” by the enginmen of the LNER, in time members of the class were rebuilt with standard LNER components as class O8/2.

J. F. Harrison locomotives:

A9 4-6-2 No.200-249

A direct development on Peppercorn’s 6ft 8in A1 Pacific, these featured many of the advancements of the era including thermic syphons, automatic stoker, roller bearings throughout, precision balanced motion, rocking grate, self cleaning smokebox and rotary valve gear.

A10 4-6-2 No.600-679

same principles as above, but applied to Peppercorn’s 6ft 2in A2 pacific.

H1 2-8-4 No.6450-6599

a development 2-8-0 heavy frieght locomotives designed in direct response to the LMS’s “9F” 2-10-0s, the aim with this design was to dramatically increase steaming capacity over a typical 2-8-0, so the tapered boiler from a Pacific was used in conjunction with a massive 70ft firebox, in another first for LNER tender locomotives it featured a separate trailing truck under the firebox and cab, rather than a fixed cartazzi and bissel truck hybrid arrangement as on the W1

H2 2-8-4t No.6850-6949

A result of the collieries passing into the hands of the Big four, this 100 strong class was directly based off of the post war standard 2-8-0s and built for hauling long coal trains directly from the collieries and mines to the large marshalling yards around Yorkshire, Tyneside, County Durham and Northumbria.

I1 2-8-6T No.6950-6964

a development of the H2 in an attempt to improve coal capacity, the only locomotive in Britain to feature a 6 wheel bogie.

J1 0-6-0 No.4000-4169

An outside cylindered 0-6-0 tender engine based of the chassis of the J95, but with a much larger boiler, these featured the same tender cab as the K7.

K8 2-6-0 No.2225-2499

A larger mixed traffic 2-6-0 with 5ft 8in drivers based on the Gresley K3.

L3 2-6-4 No.9200-9249 

Based heavily on a much earlier 6ft 2in design intended for the GE (see above image), this update of the design was intended for working stopping passenger trains on the Great Central section of the LNER, though they could be found working elsewhere from time to time.

M2 4-8-2 No.340-399

A continuation of LNER 4-8-2 design, this locomotive featured all the modcons of his Pacific designs, as well as 6ft 2in drivers and a 300psi boiler, bringing the tractive effort to an immense 47,000lbs.

M3 4-8-2 No.400-409 The last step in LNER express steam locomotive design, this was a monster 400psi 4 cylinder compound with a yarrow firetube boiler and an estimated tractive effort close to 50,000lbs.

O5 2-8-0 No.6200-6399. A final development of LNER 2-8-0 design, featuring roller bearings, rotary valves, Thermic syphons, tapered boiler and double chimney. R1 4-8-4 “Windcutter” No.6400-6449

The final class of LNER steam locomotive, these were designed with 5ft 6in drivers and utilized a Pacific boiler for hauling express freights known as “windcutters” along the Great Central, afterwhich they earned their nickname

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Hazel Locomotive Shops presents the LNER A2/1 Pacific. In 1944, Edward Thompson ordered the last four ordered Gresley V2 2-6-2s to be built to his own modified 4-6-2 design. Built in 1944-45, The four engines were meant to be the successor to the V2, part of Thompson's  standardization plan. In reality, all four would be scrapped before V2 withdrawls began. In my Au, No.508 Duke of Rothesay would be saved by private buyer Gywneth Amari for an undisclosed sum. In 1966 Amari would purchase the recently closed Great Central line from British Rails, and 508 was overhauled at Doncaster, pulling the reopening train for the new London New Eastern Railway. She has since become the symbol of the railway's heritage operations. She completed her most recent overhaul in 2016, and recently doubled-headed a heritage special with fellow LNER Pacific 60103 Flying Scotsman to celebrate the latter’s 100th birthday.

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So I obsess over engines on like a weekly basis, but heres some.

1. The most recent:GWR River class, specifically No.69 Avon, who will be aplearing in -A Screech in the Night' bc screw you I'm saving her.

2.LNER A2/1. Thompson's planned successor to the V2. Just quirky, oddly lovely engines.

3.Earl of Cadwor -a GWR engine fit with a unique cab and boiler for use on hills. It was later converted back but look at her! Yes I'm an LNER fangirl why do you ask?

4. Highland Railway Clan Class. The most beautiful british 4-6-0s. Just yes.

5. Gresley P1. Cackles in tractive effort. A 2-8-2 version of the A1 pacific. Yeeesssss.

6. This friendly little mogul is converted into a diesel switcher in Louisiana, and served in that condition until at least the late 70s. 11/10 shes doing her best <3

7. L&YR class 7 Atlantic's. Nicknamed high fliers due to their abnormally high boiler postition and high speed, these were regularly clocked at over 90mph, and two claimed 100 before turo did. Also my beta calls them giraffes.

8. QJ. Just the steam engine. Wonderful. Best thing China ever made. I want one. Theres actually three in America, and I need to see them.

9.Turbomotive my beloved. Found a custom oo model on ebay and I've been in love ever since. Crews called her Gracie Fields (after a famous singer at the time) due to her unique exhaust beat.

10.GT3. A gas turbine Loco, this is just so precious. An engine that was loved by crews, but she took so long to build modern styles of diesels were already around. Imagine if she had been built quickly.

Alright people! I have a question for you all.

What locomotive (Steam/Diesel/Electric/Whatever) do you love like it's a favourite of yours, or love so much that it could almost be call an obsession?

(That's a bad thing btw)

For me it's the:

NBR H Class Atlantics

GWR 4000 Class

PRR T1

LNER A1/A3's

VR S Class