Gresley 'Bantam Cock' 'Hush Hush' Cock O' The North & Wath Banker

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I have added some new photos of

10000 the Gresley designed ‘Hush Hush’ loco
https://tinyurl.com/y4m3572p

And 10000 rebuilt as a W1 4-6-4
https://tinyurl.com/yyxpnkp6

Gresley V4
1700 Bantam Cock at Fort William
https://tinyurl.com/yy5qyv8s

Gresley P2
2001 Cock o' the North at Kings Cross
https://tinyurl.com/y3v7mdbd
Gresley P2
2394 Langley water trough
https://tinyurl.com/y3dcjeof

‘Wath Banker’
2395 Doncaster works The Beyer, Peacock & Gresley U1 Garratt ('The Wath Banker')
https://tinyurl.com/yyky3q6b

Neil

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I have added 4 new photos of Gresley’s Hush Hush loco rebuilt as a 4-6-4 looking like a streamlined A4
10000 Gresley rebuilt W1 4-6-4 Hush-Hush Locomotive
https://tinyurl.com/3b5cnwm9
60700 at various locations
https://tinyurl.com/a6rscxdc
https://tinyurl.com/y9baken3
https://tinyurl.com/3hf8m3w3

Neil
https://tinyurl.com/3b5cnwm9

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The London and North Eastern Railway Class U1 was a solitary 2-8-0+0-8-2 Beyer-Garratt locomotive designed under Nigel Gresley for banking coal trains over the Worsborough Bank, a steeply graded line in South Yorkshire and part of the Woodhead Route. It was both the longest and the most powerful steam locomotive ever to run in Britain. It was built in 1925 with the motion at each end being based on an existing 2-8-0 design. The original number was 2395, and it was renumbered 9999 in March 1946, and then 69999 after nationalisation in 1948, although it retained its cab-side plate bearing its original number throughout its life. The locomotive ran for some time as an oil burner, and was tried out on the Lickey Incline in 1949–1950 and again, after the electrification of its home line, in 1955. These trials were unsuccessful, and so the locomotive was withdrawn in 1955 and scrapped.


2 photos of the loco on a trial run to Woodhead
69999 passing Newton station on a trial run to Woodhead Gresley built by Beyer, Peacock. class U1 Garratt ('The Wath Banker')
https://tinyurl.com/x9xe64n7
69999 on a trial run to Woodhead unknown location Gresley U1 Garratt ('The Wath Banker')
https://tinyurl.com/7ax6tsbc

LNER era photos start here
https://tinyurl.com/yk39ec8s

B.R. era photos start here
https://tinyurl.com/37dmtzbb

Neil

https://tinyurl.com/x9xe64n7