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London & Croydon Railway 0-4-2 'Croydon'

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The construction of Rennie's 'Croydon' banking loco for the New Cross incline continues. Last night's milestone was managing to shoe horn a Portescap RG4 into the very limited space available.

 

Next job will be to make the sub assembly of footplate/outside frames and cylinders.

 

Mrs Rennie looks on wondering just who her husband expects to be polishing all that copper!

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relaxinghobby

New Cross incline? No sign of that these days when you are riding in a modern electric, EMU, into London Bridge Station.

So where is it?

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5&9Models

Perhaps you mean where was it?

 

There was indeed an incline on the London & Croydon Railway of 1 in 100 stretching 2 - 3/4 miles from New Cross to Forest Hill. Just as there was an incline on the London & Birmingham Railway out of Euston. The inclined section on the London & Birmingham had to be rope hauled, but this was as much to do with an act of Parliament which did not allow engines nearer London than Camden Town. This practice ceased mid 1844.

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