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Name that Cab
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 9:53 pm
by Iron Duke
Picked up this print on a bric a brac stall today.
Can anyone identify the type of locomotive, my apologises in advance if it turns out to be not be of Eastern origin.
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Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:40 pm
by Danby Wiske
Iron Duke wrote:my apologises in advance if it turns out to be not be of Eastern origin.
No need to apologise - the gauges at the top clearly say LNER!
Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:06 pm
by Iron Duke
Thanks for that Danby Wiske ! (I should have gone to Specsavers)
Safe for me to post the other two prints now, any ideas on the loco type for the first pic and indeed the latter two?
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Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:08 pm
by 52A
Some clues there, air and vacuum brakes and light switches, were any L1s dual braked? Second pic is an A4.
Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:17 pm
by Atlantic 3279
Cab 1. Those switches were making me think about K1, B1 or possibly K4 (don't know about that third one - it depends on what was fitted to the preserved Great Marquess for latter-day operation in West Scotland). The dual braking is an interesting point though, so could be L1, unless the others I mentioned have had air brakes added....
Cab 2. Is it definitely A4? The spectacle plate possibly looks flat if you ask me. A3?
Cab 3. D10, B2, B3, B6, B8, O5? I think that very picture appears, captioned, in E Johnson's book on GC locos but I can't get at it just now.
Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:09 am
by 52A
The whistle control is A4, A3s were high up and not on the box end.
Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:38 am
by Boris
Looks like an A4
Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:59 pm
by bricam5
i would rule out B1 for cab1. The vacuum brake in the picture is the " Dreadnought" type not fitted on the B1's.
Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 1:06 am
by Darryl Tooley
Photograph one is reproduced as fig 175 of 'The London and North Eastern Railway in Focus' by the late John Crawley, where it is captioned as 'Inside the cab of No. 9000' (ie the first L1).
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Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:36 am
by James Brodie
52A wrote:Some clues there, air and vacuum brakes and light switches, were any L1s dual braked? Second pic is an A4.
yes some of the L1s were Westinghouse fitted...JB.
Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 4:22 pm
by Solario
Cab 3 is a Robinson 8M (LNER O5), number 412 to be precise.
The picture appears in George Dow's Great Central Vol 3.
Re: Name that Cab
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:33 am
by earlswood nob
Good morning all
The pic of the O5 cab is interesting as I'm building an O4/6 (rebuilt from O5).
Question: Are the plates to the back of the cab shutters? Or are they merely part of the seats with lockers underneath?
Second question: Does anyone know a source of castings for backheads to suit the O4 and O5?
Earlswood nob