Peterborough North

[New Haven Neil]

Oh, um, another split decision for me - Atlantic/Remembrance/K.....

 

Ahrg, can't decide.

 

K.  There. made it finally!

[mullie]

K Class Mogul 

 

Martyn

[jazzer]

7 hours ago, 2750Papyrus said:

Marsh Atlantic.  GN design with longer stroke and cab!

Yes , I was veering towards the H1/H 2 Atlantic’s and in terms of best they cut it for me but I kind of feel they are not really true LBSC locos. Marsh apparently even borrowed Doncaster’s drawings of the GNR Atlantic and just tweaked it a bit , so I marked them down a bit on that and give my vote to the E4 tanks, not least because the Bluebells one looks great in the flesh. 

[Metropolitan H]

I'm in two minds - again!

 

I wanted to vote for the  Bo-Bo 800 HP motor luggage vans built for the extension of the LBSCR 6,600v AC Overhead electric system to Coulsdon North and Sutton.

 

But as the extensions got delayed by WW1 and then the Grouping of 1923, these motive power units did not enter service till 1925 under the "Southern Railway" heading!

 

So instead my vote goes to the beautiful L Class "Baltic" tanks introduced by Lawson Billinton.

 

Regards

Chris H

[great northern]

Rear three quarter view of another 4MT arriving from Kings Lynn.

 

 

[thegreenhowards]

Marsh Atlantic for me.

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Marsh's Doppelganger 4-4-2.

 

manna

[Market65]

The Marsh Atlantic for me too in this poll.

 

 Rob.

[great northern]

Next is the 5.00 stopper from KX, just a MK1 five set, but headed by Mallard. The HMRS survey shows this was Pacific hauled more often than not, and the return leg is likely to be one of the heavy overnight sleeping car trains.

 

 

 

 

Another one I forgot to photoshop. My brain must be more addled than usual.

[great northern]

K Class Mogul with 5 votes thwarted efforts to promote the Marsh Atlantic, which got 4.

 

While we are in this part of the world, we will look for the best of the SECR, about which I know even less.

[thegreenhowards]

27 minutes ago, great northern said:

Next is the 5.00 stopper from KX, just a MK1 five set, but headed by Mallard. The HMRS survey shows this was Pacific hauled more often than not, and the return leg is likely to be one of the heavy overnight sleeping car trains.

 

 

 

 

Another one I forgot to photoshop. My brain must be more addled than usual.

This train was an 11 car formation from KX with six coaches for Cambridge on the back. Unlike the later splitting 1752 KX-PN/CMB, it was not double headed, so probably justified a Pacific as far as Hitchin.

[Mallard60022]

50 minutes ago, great northern said:

K Class Mogul with 5 votes thwarted efforts to promote the Marsh Atlantic, which got 4.

 

While we are in this part of the world, we will look for the best of the SECR, about which I know even less.

Nothing will beat the N

[3rd Rail Exile]

Another vote for the N Class Mogul - versatile and long-lived...

[Metropolitan H]

I agree it has to be the "N" 2-6-0 - so good Woolwich Arsenal built a large batch at the end of WW1 to keep their workers busy - hence the "Woolworths" nickname.

 

Regards

Chris H

[David Bell]

H class 0-4-4T

[Market65]

I’m going with that N class mogul too in this poll.

 

 Rob.

[Clive Mortimore]

L class, because I don't know what the 'ell I am voting for.

Edited May 1, 2021 by Clive Mortimore

[woodenhead]

On 30/04/2021 at 11:07, Mallard60022 said:

Lovely Engines. First one I ever drove.

P

Ah, the Rails of Sheffield version

[sandra]

L class 4-4-0. 4-4-0s were the principal express locos of the SECR and these were probably the best of them. 

[Oldddudders]

The N is a good shout, with which I concur. Many Southern locos remained close to their Pre-Grouping rails, but the N was adopted as some sort of standard, and so could be seen everywhere from native Ramsgate to far Padstow, just doing what was wanted. 

[jollysmart]

Go left field, so the 4-4-0 L's for me as well.

[Sandhole]

D1 and E1 are classed as Southern locos, I presume,
That means it has to be the N class moguls.

[2750Papyrus]

The latest issue of the GNRS magazine contains an excellent article titled "Thameslink's Victorian Predecessors", dealing with through workings between the GN suburban lines and those of the LC&DR/SER.  The cover photo is of a SECR train of ten coaches hauled by 0-4-4T 184 heading north past Belle Isle.

 

So for the successful integration of north/south services across London more than 100 years ago, my vote goes to the Q1 class tank engine design!

[great northern]

10 hours ago, thegreenhowards said:

This train was an 11 car formation from KX with six coaches for Cambridge on the back. Unlike the later splitting 1752 KX-PN/CMB, it was not double headed, so probably justified a Pacific as far as Hitchin.

i have just been doing some photoshopping of photos taken a bit later in the sequence. As a result, although of course the information you gave for the 5.00pm is spot on, I now have to admit that the train above was in fact the 4.21pm. That train was the one I should have been referring to, and did have an A4 one day of the week of the survey. I can only plead that the photo was taken quite a while ago, thus giving me plenty of opportunity to get confused, an opportunity which I seized with both hands.

[New Haven Neil]

I was thinking of once again standing up for the humble goods engine, the C class.  But the N puts up a strong case, became the 'Black5 of the Southern' really - so it has to be the N.