Anglian Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 I have an image of Loco no 200 Beresford in Muriel Searle's book, Down the Line to Brighton and am trying to find further images of this engine. Ideally I'd really like to be able to buy a photographic print or postcard but at this stage any further images would be of great interest to me. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted March 16, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2014 The NRM has the most famous of the class preserved - Gladstone him/herself. 0-4-2s weren't really up to their original mainline task with the heavier trains in use by the turn of the century, which is why Billinton built the B2s and B4s. Thus the class was gone by 1933. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Not Beresford I'm afraid, but the best portraits of Gladstones I know of are those in the "E J Bedford of Lewes" Wild Swan book. Maybe the Brighton Circle http://www.lbscr.org/circle/ can help? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgundy Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Anglian Is the question about Gladstones in general or Beresford in particular? And is the period/livery important? Best wishes Eric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglian Posted March 16, 2014 Author Share Posted March 16, 2014 Thanks all for your responses. Burgundy: it is no 200 Beresford itself that is important. The livery – I'm guessing it's improved engine green which features the name painted on the splasher but I may be wrong in my assumption. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Blandford1969 Posted March 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 17, 2014 The only one I have scanned at the moment is this one https://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/12765238955/. I have got a shot somewhere of Gladstone on Stewarts Lane, not sure when but you can see overhead cateneray on the viaduct. Kind regards Duncan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted March 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17, 2014 Bradley (Locomotives of the L.B.& S.C.R. Part 2, RCTS 1972) does not include a picture of Beresford. She seems to have been a Brighton loco most of her career, and would have lost her name some time after the 1905 decision to replace the green with umber, although several other Gladstones did keep their names thereafter. She entered service January 1888, was withdrawn April 1929. On 11th February 1893 she became one of the first locos to receive steam-heating equipment on that railway, and 4 days later worked the first train to use that equipment. Thereafter she was the regular engine on the steam-heated 0845 Brighton to London Bridge. She was one of only two Gladstones to retain a copper-capped chimney right through until Grouping in 1923, although by then she was in the Duplicate List, i.e. not in everyday capital service. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglian Posted March 17, 2014 Author Share Posted March 17, 2014 Thanks for your information. Duncan thank you for the image is this no 200 itself? I notice two spotters sitting far left within the railway boundary! Oldddudders – great info and good to know she was a well turned out Brighton engine – that fits in with my long term plans nicely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Blandford1969 Posted March 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 18, 2014 Sadly there was no information with the glass plates, although most of them have been identified. I can't be certain which member of the class the neg is of. I will see about digging out the neg and seeing if it is possible to do a higher res scan of just the number, although it is not very clear. Duncan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Just a flag there were small differences between Gladstone herself, and the other members of the class. Check any drawings or photographs. Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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