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Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by aron33, Aug 15, 2017.

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  1. Copper-capped

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    GWR is by far the worst represented of the big four in terms of surviving Pacifics.

    Just sayin. ;)
     
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    I believe a certain Mr. Churchward said of a certain Mr. Gresley, "Why does that young man want to build a Pacific? He could have had ours." ;)
     
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    Says a GWR man ;)
     
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    Fortunately, Gresley had more sense.
     
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    And not to mention that Hawksworth has a Pacific class planned, but not built.
    Hence the 80xx “Cathedral” class...
     
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    Guilty pleasures....:Shamefullyembarrased:
     
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    I rather like that Frederick Hawksworth chap, he really had some cracking ideas for the GW. Look at 1501 certainly the most unwestern Western machine I can think of!
     
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    Examples of the 82xxx and 84xxx are well on their way though. That only leaves the 77xxx still missing. One day, perhaps...
     
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    Oh yes! I had the opportunity to examine 1501 in great detail once: on the A1(M)!! All the traffic had come to a halt after some bonehead in a stolen car made a mess of himself and two police cars near Peterborough once. So I took a walk down the carriageway with my phone and took a few pictures :D
     
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    It's a bit of a beast that one! :p
     
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  11. The Green Howards

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    You have my attention, Sir: tell me more... :)
     
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    We all have our crosses to bear Ross! ;) Joking aside GW wise I'm rather partial to something with 4 numbers beginning with 78.. They're pretty decent :) image.jpg Getting back on topic how's about building the missing batch of of these?
     
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    Erm... Isn't there 8 or 9 of the original 30 currently in preservation? not exactly a missing or under-represented class. Also, I don't think there's enough 43xx's to build new ones from
     
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    Out of the 9 left 5 out of those are BR built from new so we don't need to use 5322 or 7325 as a basis for the next batch ! My original comments were meant slightly tongue in cheek.
     
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    So were mine
     
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    So we're agreed then?! Another batch of Manors?! :)
     
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    Popular myth.
    The drawing office seems to have done a bit of preliminary sketching out of ideas for a Pacific on their own account, but when Hawksworth found out he had a stop put to it..
     
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    I've sometimes wondered how new was new. About the right number of 43s were withdrawn at the same time...
     
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    Really? Now that's quite interesting, would there be any differences between the pre and post war batch's on say the frames maybe?
     
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    Hinton and Cookham Manors say hello.
     
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