#lner w1

[hazel-of-sodor]

What are they doing?

They're express engines. They're discussing the state of the railway (gossiping)

but fun thing, there are only 4 A4s here

far right isn't an A4, it's Hush Hush

yep, the LNER's rebuilt white elephant. By all acounts I've found, post rebuild she was just a non-standard A4. Although it is worth noting Gresley was considing rebuild the A4s with the boiler fit to no.10000, so he was impressed with that at part of the rebuild at least.

heading left, we have Golden Eagle

Empire of India (my beloved)

Golden Shuttle, who was later renamed Dwight D. Eisenhower and Preserved

and Dominion of New Zealand

[burgerking-offical]

oh boy i really have been dead here’s an LNER W1 class

[the-time-lord-oracle]

Hornby's models of the unique LNER W1 Baltic. Neat that they do the locomotive in both it's original water-tube boiler form and it's later rebuilt form.

[karl-jensen]

CONNOR and CAITLIN — My Headcanons

Since American steam locomotives are a thing in Thomas and Friends, I am quite weirded out with Connor and Caitlin's in-television designs since they are based on American streamliners. The production didn't even look up different streamliners from the United Kingdom and missed out on a handful of interesting trains such as the LNER W1 Hush-Hush, LMS Streamlined Coronation Scot, the P2's and many more. For my headcanons for the two Streamliners of Sir Robert Norramby, I made Connor and Caitlin an LNER P2 (fictional) Prototype and an LMS Coronation class to fit the series' theme of British Steam Locomotives.

Headcanons for Connor

Connor is now an LNER P2, specifically a fictional prototype just like Gordon.

He is now painted Blue to match the color scheme of the A4's and their Coronation liveries. However, Connor's wheels are black instead of red.

Prior to being painted Blue, he was once Green like many of the LNER's engines.

His personality is rather snarky and would often tease anyone as well as rolling stock and humans.

He is numbered 2000 and is named "Lord Connor".

He used to pull the Coronation, a train service from London to Edinburgh.

Connor was the first to be purchased and saved from scrap by Sir Robert Norramby. He would be heartbroken to find that Caitlin wasn't rescued until 1971.

Headcanons for Caitlin

Caitlin is now an LMS Coronation class locomotive.

Her streamlining works as follows: A spare firebox door was specially built for Caitlin and the other Coronations to cover up the smokebox. Whenever their casings are removed, their original smokebox doors are placed back. The face that you see in Caitlin's illustration IS her original smokebox door, while the one inside the casing is the spare one.

Her number is 6249 and is named "City of Sheffield", a real-life locomotive. Caitlin hated that name and would often get called as "Sheff" from many of her colleagues, especially Connor. She would call herself "Caitlin" since it suited her better.

She is quite friendly to everybody, but gets easily irritated whenever someone teases her or hears an annoying sound like screeching.

She once pulled the Coronation Scot, a train service from London to Edinburgh.

Caitlin was rescued from the scrapyard in 1968, months after Connor. She was purchased by Sir Robert Norramby with financial support from Sir Charles Topham Hatt.

She was restored to working order in 1971 where she surprised Connor.

The Edinburgh Incident, 193X

Headcanons in General

Connor and Caitlin's character dynamic in the show is similar to Hercules and Lillie Lightship from Tugs. Both are portrayed as lovers.

Connor first met Caitlin in the 1930's. He tried racing her to Scotland but ran out of water after refusing to scoop up water from a trough along the way. He was scolded by the Stationmaster and was reported to the LNER's head office for his reckless and irresponsible behavior.

During World War II, both engines shared a close relationship. They would often help one another until they became very close like star-crossed lovers.

Both engines were out of service by the 1960's. Connor was the only engine in his class to have never been streamlined, while Caitlin continued her British Railways career without her casing.

Connor fell into a deep depression after he was restored to working order, but he was informed by Sir Topham Hatt and Sir Robert Norramby that they will raise money to save Caitlin from the cutter's torch. His depression ended in 1971 when Caitlin arrived at Tidmouth Station with a passenger train.

Prior to Caitlin's restoration, she was transferred from the scrapyard to Crovan's Gate late at night so that Connor wouldn't see her. Sir Robert wanted to surprise him once Caitlin was restored to working order, but rumors by some engines say that a Coronation Class is in the Island being restored. The crew tried their best in hiding Caitlin by putting her in the shed so that her partner wouldn't see her, and tried their best in hushing up rumors.

The two engines pull special coaches with observation cars, or "Beavertails" as they are called. The TV show did not acknowledge their presence in real life, so I added them to stay true to railway history.

Connor: I'll race ya to Edinburgh, Sheff. See ya in the blink of an eye!

Caitlin: Do NOT call me that, you green goblin! Call me by my preferred name, CAITLIN!

Connor: Alright then, darling. If I reach Edinburgh, I still get to call you 'Sheff'. But if you reach there first, then I shall call you 'Caitlin'. Is it a deal?

Caitlin: It's a big fat damn deal. I'll race ya to Edinburgh!

[askyoungiron]

Green Arrow, do you know why the other LNER engines hate the W1 so much? (Also, you're my favorite.)

Green Arrow: Other engines opinions of you essentially comes down to how you performed and more importantly how Sir Gresley percieved you. A lot of the engines on the Flying Scotsman's express prided themselves on certain values and that was to perform well, look spotless and be affable and pleasant to passengers. (Why Great Northern worked on the line I have no idea).

The Hush Hush was considered bulky and ugly, ignored passengers and was considered a failure by the Gresley himself and so they where very much outcast because of it and 'Galloping Sausage' became a nasty nickname for it.

You don't ignore passengers on the Flying Scotsman Line. It's just not accepted. Passenger hospitality is their number one concern.

The Flying Scotsman line was like the celebrity line of the LNER. Engines strived to be on it and if you were rejected from by either the engines or the directors, like the W1 was, then you were effectively doomed.

So there was a lot of reasons why W1 was never liked.

(Nice to know someone has TASTE!)

[multifandomlover-usa]

since im bored an because i want ill tallk a small bit about an oc i have.

his name is river. his class is the lner w1. he atleast for rght now resieds in an Edinburgh scrap yard. he dosen't have a tender. he is lacking 4 of his 6 driving wheels and lacking his streamlining and his cupling rods were scaped into bean tins.

the scraers slowly scrap him i there free time when they aren't doing other important things. and that all i have sadly since im not the best with story idea's.

[tornadoyoungiron]

G a l l o p i n g S a u s a g e

[davidarkwright2trains]

The LNER W1 No. 10000 (also known as the Hush-Hush due to its secrecy) was an experimental steam locomotive fitted with a high pressure water-tube boiler.

[dragonkingofthestars-recove-blog]

The Engine i know for sure as being nicknamed Galloping sausage  was the LNER Class W1, the aforementioned experimental high pressure steam engine. Even wikipeida lists the “ Galloping Sausage” nickname and a few other sources confirm it. I got the idea behind the headcanon when I found out about the Engine from train of thought’s video on the subject: .

I now love Audrey’s railway series more for using this little bit of trivia as a plot point.

Broke Headcanon: Gordon does not like being called a galloping sausage because it's rude. Woke headcanon: galloping sausage was the nickname of a high pressure steam engine prototype designed by Nigel Gresley, it was a failure and so had it's boiler scrapped to be built as a normal engine. So calling Gordon a "galloping sausage" is saying "Your a failed prototype, and I hope you get scrapped!"

I can certainly believe that there were some pretty heavy dimensions to everything Diesel said and did in that arc!

If I understand right, "galloping sausage" is a nickname heard on real-life rails for various engines, though I don't have any sources or know which classes might have earned this badge of shame.

[a-frodingham-shed]

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

[hazel-of-sodor]

Tomorrow is @tigerhawk7109 's birthday, so to celebrate, here is their baby. The LNER W1 Class No. 10000 "Hush Hush"

[davidarkwright2trains]

The LNER (London North Eastern Railways) 4-6-4 Class W1 No.10.000 steam tender locomotive with A4-style streamlining designed by Sir Nigel Gresley steams out of King’s Cross station alongside the LNER Class A4 No.4