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The LMS's pre-grouping express 4-6-0s - a question

Discussie in 'Steam Traction' gestart door John Petley, 20 mrt 2017.

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  1. LMS2968

    LMS2968 Part of the furniture

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    I assume you don't include either FWW or HNG in that category?
     
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    I don't really know enough about the locomotives of other lines to make any kind of judgement on their CMEs.
    The GWR were pretty well off I think. Gooch was brilliant, the Armstrongs very competent, Dean a bit erratic, but in general the classes he built in numbers were very good, GJC brilliant, and Collett, with his eye for detail, probably an ideal succcessor to GJC.
     
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    my GGF and 2 G uncles worked for the LNWR . they are all still in France
     
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  4. sir gilbert claughton

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    the GWR was recovering from the cost of converting to narrow gauge and were struggling to maintain viability . if GJC s engines had not been the early success they were things could have been very different . no wonder the board questioned the cost of the new locos .

    re the Krugers , they were just as much an exercise in boiler design as The Bear. the early Atlantics owed a lot to the Krugers
     
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    Succession planning is another important thing for a company to get right. In the case of the GW I wonder whether in each case the Board listened to views of the outgoing CME - ie there was always a clear second in command who would become the next CME and he was always a protege of the outgoing one?
     
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