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No C3?
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:59 am
by Coboman
Why was a gap left in the adlantics when the LNER was formed? No C3!
Re: No C3?
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:39 am
by Saint Johnstoun
C3 was kept for any post-grouping development of the Large GN Atlantics or it could have been used for the 'odd' GN large Atlantics which had been rebuilt.
Re: No C3?
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:23 am
by Blink Bonny
Ay up!
That's one handsome machine, St J. An A3 conversion methinks.
Re: No C3?
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:35 am
by kudu
No, it was reserved for the "Stirling Double" project, entailing fitting a longer boiler to No 1. After he was dissuaded from pursuing this, Thompson turned to "Great Northern" instead ...
(Not many people know about this.)
Kudu
Re: No C3?
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:10 pm
by Saint Johnstoun
Remember that the C classifications used by the Great Northern did not correspond with those used by the LNER!
Re: No C3?
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:05 pm
by Coboman
That C7 rebuilt proposition would have been a very handsome loco. Shame it wasn't done.