The Funeral Trains of Queen Victoria

[Hroth]

After the couple of films about Queen Victorias love life in later times, the concept of multiple funeral trains had me worrying that we'd strayed into Royal Vampire territory....

 

Once I'd got over that, its interesting stuff. 

 

Bravo!

[Oldddudders]

After the couple of films about Queen Victorias love life in later times, the concept of multiple funeral trains had me worrying that we'd strayed into Royal Vampire territory....

 

Once I'd got over that, its interesting stuff. 

 

Bravo!

ISTR fresh garlic can help.

[mvrnut]

Sorry to resurrect this topic but a photo on FB recently has sparked my interest. The photo shows a LBSC Atlantic No. 39 on a Royal train at Portsmouth docks that was wrongly captioned as being as being Queen Victoria's funeral train.

  Upon researching Queen Victoria's funeral train I found that it was taken by a LSWR loco from Gosport to Fareham wherupon it was then taken by a LBSC B4 loco to Victoria station.

   So my question is this, does anyone know what LSWR loco took the train from Gosport to Fareham?

Cheers,

   Chris

[Oldddudders]

According to Hamilton Ellis in his LBSCR history, LSWR 555 hauled the train from Gosport to Fareham. I believe this to have been an Adams A12 2-4-0. 

[mvrnut]

Thanks Ian. I thought that perhaps it was an LSWR A12. And having checked Loco No. 555 was indeed an A12.

Cheers,

Chris

[Regularity]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

According to Hamilton Ellis in his LBSCR history, LSWR 555 hauled the train from Gosport to Fareham. I believe this to have been an Adams A12 2-4-0. 

Wasn’t the A12 an 0-4-2?

[Nearholmer]

It was, and here is a picture of the very loco in question, getting ready for ots own funeral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSWR_A12_class#/media/File:Eastleigh_Locomotive_Depot_Adams_0-4-2_geograph-2980721-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg