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Distinguishing GWR 4-6-0s

Discussie in 'Steam Traction' gestart door Jimc, 16 mrt 2015.

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  1. Ruston906

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    This may have been true in the 1920s but by 1948 not so there had been a need for design changes and adapting to new technologies electric and Diesel traction
     
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    It's simple.

    Kings

    Castles

    Everything else.
     
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    Sometimes, ya just gotta tell it like it is! :)
     
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    LMS 4-6-0s all look pretty similar to me.....
     
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    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    Only because they are :)

    Oooh, no, wait a minute; some have smoke deflectors, that makes them different doesn't it? :D
     
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    not to mention the 2-8-0 versions
     
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    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    ... and the 2-6-0 ... all sounds a bit familiar to be honest :)
     
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  8. Reading General

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    indeed...most LMS locos seem to have little connection to the MR/LNWR heritage.
     
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    Aye, all designed at Horwich.
     
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    MR/LNWR heritage? Isn't that almost like saying Manchester United/Manchester City heritage?
     
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    well that sums up the problems the LMS faced and they had top turn to Swindon to solve them
     
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    Keep going. No one seems to be biting..........:Yawn:
     
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  13. Reading General

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    no one cares about LMS designs obviously (will that do it?)
     
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    Well out of the Big Four the LMS tended to have the most dull looking designs (perhaps that will push it? :p)
     
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    If you could get a good look they are probably all different. Problem is, they are inevitably shrouded in a cloud of steam from a stuck drain cock, so no-one has ever been able to get a good look and confirm that hypothesis...

    Tom
     
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  16. Jimc

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    I suspect if you want to troll the LMS boys then a thread entitled GWR 4-6-0s is not ideal. But isn't it a bit like shooting fish in a barrel? Especially if we are talking about pre Stanier days?
     
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    Chill...very little of this thread is serious
     
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  18. Steve

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    Then why do you brassnobs take it so seriously?;)
     
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  19. Reading General

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    youmbeen peaking at my knob?
     
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    GWR fans only get het up when people tease about all their designs being the same, because they know it's got a lot of truth.

    LMS fans know our 4-6-0s are all completely distinct, i.e. red ones, black ones, parallel boiler ones, big ass parallel boiler ones, big ass taper boiler ones, various old ones.

    That's why the LMS never needed a classification system which actually distinguished between them...

    We won't go into the niceties of the big ass taper boiler ones.

    As to the argument that later on some lunatic painted lots of them GWR green, clearly that does not deserve a response.

    (I like GWR locos too...)
     
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