What Locomotive ?

Interesting selections everyone, with a wide range of locomotives.

 

For the Strathspey, it would probably be a Highland Railway 'River' class. The best pre-grouping 4-6-0 built by a Scottish company.

For the Talyllyn: well, No.2's just returned to steam...

 

I would have GER E4 No.490 with 6 GER 6 wheelers on the MNR

 

Nothing un-original, but for me a LMS Black 5, does the job no problem. For something more eccentric though it has to be a WD 2-10-0 , maybe even a BR Std 9F.

 

Or J17 on the windcutters at the GCR?

 

if we are being totally practical its got to be a standard 3 mogol or 4 mt of either type, within most railways axle loading and able to haul what most would concider to be their heaviest normal service train , no point in having an engine that is unable to be of use when you need something suitable to handle 5 or 6 mk1,s and easy to service and dispose and doesnt burn coal for the fun of it
if i am being unpractical then something like a 2.4.0 tender engine of edwardian design to go with our vintage coaches

 

OK - I have imbibed of the hop and the grape arty: - so let's have an LNER 'U' class please, on any line that has a suitable gradient and can muster enough of a load to make it break sweat. :clap2:

 

hmmmm what loco, hmmmmmmmmm. well im going to be predictable and say a newbuild Patriot by the name The Unknown Warrior (nameplate currently on my dining room table) and it would have to be going From Stoke on trent to Leek then up to cauldon via the triangle then back to Alton towers. Now hopefully by the time its built the churnet/mcr will have the layout to do it.

 

Easy, the NRM's Q7 back on the NYMR. Simple.

 

Existing loco that might return to steam: LBSCR E1 Burgandy in LBSCR livery on the Bluebell
Existing loco that would be unlikely to return to steam: LBSCR B1 Gladstone on the Bluebell
Non-existant loco: LBSCR K class mogul in LBSCR livery on the Bluebell, oh and maybe a replics of The Great Bear at Didcot

Daniel

 

For me it has to be an LMS 6P along the severn valley.

 

What one?

 

The 5AT strikes me as being the sort of steam locomotive that BR would have built in the 1960's had the diesel locomotive not been invented! The coming of diesels made the case for steam completely obsolete in practical terms for day-to-day mainstream use unless you had access to free or very cheap coal!

Anyway steam locomotives more technically advanced than the 5AT have already been built - e.g. The Bulleid 'Leader' prototype http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/leader/leader.htm and the Union Pacific steam turbine locomotives http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/upturb/upturb.htm


I love steam locomotives (and diesels too), I'm a volunteer at a steam railway. Steam does have a bright futures, but only really in the heritage sector. There seem to be more and more new-builds so maybe the 5AT will be built one day. But it would only really be an interesting curiosity and would probably remain an impressive one-off.

 

Further to this I would also like to see a 'Claud Hamilton', at again any heritage railway. A steam locomotive pioneer of the GER.

 

There is a group planning to do a new-build of one: http://claudhamiltongroup.webs.com/

 

A J50.............I'm surprised none of this class was preserved.

 

Or on the milk train http://www.remembernorfolk.org/viewlarge.aspx?GI=23&MI=51000230014

 

Yes, I am aware of the group.