British Steam: Pacific Power

by Keith Langston

Overview

Pacific, collectively a name applied to steam locomotives with a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement is perhaps more commonly associated with express passenger engines but that is not the whole story, there were also Pacific Tank Engines. The LNER is famously associated with their streamlined Gresley A4 Pacific locomotives and that most celebrated of locomotives, Flying Scotsman. The new build Pacific Tornado has raised the profile of the 4-6-2 type to even greater heights. The LMS produced powerful Pacific locomotives to a Stanier design; whilst the Southern Railway constructed Bullied air smoothed 4-6-2 engines. The GWR, who built Britains first Pacific type, actually entered the BR era without a 4-6-2 type on their stock list! However Riddles included 4-6-2 engines in his multi regional BR Standard range. The locomotive specifications are illustrated and presented in a manner which will appeal equally to enthusiasts, model makers and railway historians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783469239
Publisher:	Wharncliffe Books
Publication date:	01/24/2020
Series:	British Steam
Sold by:	OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
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About the Author

Fred Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1948 where he gained an interest in railway locomotives from both the LMSR and LNER companies whose services permeated the local network. When his parents moved to Corby in 1956 the local steelworks provided further interest from its mix of freight services, including seeing the last of the Beyer Garrets and the replacement Standard Class 9Fs whilst the industrial locomotives of the internal steelworks network offered further insight into the variety of steam locomotives. This was a time of change and during the 1960s the interest in locomotives included the new order of diesel and electric traction without reducing the interest in steam traction. Whilst his interest in Diesel Traction led to his early involvement with the Diesel & Electric Group and its preservation activities during the 1970s, his move to Southport in 1982 restored his opportunities to return to his first love of viewing steam locomotives at work and this album records some of the locations that he chose to visit and the locomotives that he was able to photograph.
Today his interest continues as a life member of the A4 Locomotive Society, Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and Ribble Steam Railway whilst he also support bodies concerned with preserving steam locomotives, diesel locomotives and infrastructure extensions.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Century of Standard Gauge British Pacific Steam Locomotives 7

Chapter 2 Designers of the Pacifies 15

Chapter 3 Great Western Railway '111' Class 4-6-2, 1908 32

Chapter 4 London Brighton 8c South Coast Railway 'Jl' Class 4-6-2T, 1910 36

Chapter 5 North Eastern Railway 'Y' Class 4-6-2T (BR 'A7'), 1910-1911 40

Chapter 6 London 8c North Western Railway 4-6-2 'Superheater Tanks', 1911-1916 43

Chapter 7 London Brighton 8c South Coast Railway 'T2' Class 4-6-2T, 1912 46

Chapter 8 Great Central Railway '9N' Class 4-6-2T (LNER/BR A5/1'), 1914-1916 49

Chapter 9 North Eastern Railway 'W' Class as 4-6-0T 'Whitby Tanks', 1914-1916 53

Chapter 10 Caledonian Railway '944' Class 4-6-2T 'Wemyss Bay Tanks', 1917 55

Chapter 11 London 8c South Western Railway 'H16' Class 4-6-2T, 1921-1922 59

Chapter 12 Great Northern Railway 'Al' Class 4-6-2, 1922-1925 64

Chapter 13 North Eastern Railway/London & North Eastern Railway 'A2' Class 4-6-2, 1922-1924 67

Chapter 14 London 8c North Eastern Railway 'Al' ('A10') and Subsequently 'A3' Class 4-6-2, 1922-1935 71

Chapter 15 Great Central Railway '9N' Class 4-6-2T (LNER/BR 'A5/2'), 1925-1928 109

Chapter 16 North Eastern Railway 'D' class 4-4-4T, (LNER 'H1'/'A8' Class and BR'A8'), 1931-1936 111

Chapter 17 London Midland 8c Scottish Railway 'Princess Royal' Class 4-6-2, 1933-1952 119

Chapter 18 London 8c North Eastern Railway 'A4' Class 'Streamlined' 4-6-2, 1935-1938 148

Chapter 19 London Midland & Scottish Railway 'Princess Coronation/Duchess' Class 4-6-2, 1937-1948 176

Chapter 20 Southern Railway/British Railways 'Merchant Navy' Class 4-6-2, 1941-1949 210

Chapter 21 London & North Eastern Railway 'A2/2' Class 4-6-2, 1943 239

Chapter 22 London & North Eastern Railway 'A2/1' Class 4-6-2, 1944-1945 242

Chapter 23 Southern Railway/British Railways 'Battle of Britain' and 'West Country' Class 4-6-2, 1945-1951 245

Chapter 24 London & North Eastern Railway 'Al/1' Class 4-6-2, 1945 280

Chapter 25 London 8c North Eastern Railway 'A2/3' Class 4-6-2, 1946-1947 282

Chapter 26 London 8c North Eastern Railway/British Railways 'A2' Class 4-6-2, 1947-1948 286

Chapter 27 London 8c North Eastern Railway 'Al' Class 4-6-2, 1948-1949 293

Chapter 28 British Railways 'Britannia' Class 4-6-2, 1951-1954 307

Chapter 29 British Railways 'Clan Class 4-6-2, 1951-1952 316

Chapter 30 British Railways 'Duke of Gloucester' Class 4-6-2, 1954 320

Chapter 31 60163 Tornado - 50th Member of the Legendary 'Al' Pacific Class, 2008 325

Chapter 32 Preserved Pacifies 329