A 9400 class heavy 0-6-0 Pannier Tank on station pilot duty at London Paddington. A 1947 Hawksworth design for heavy shunting. Over 200 of this class were built.
Another type of ex-GWR pannier tank, this time a 5700 class. These were built in their hundreds. This one on a trip freight at Severn Tunnel Junction, South Wales.
Your 0-6-0's are much more pleasing to the eye than ours were. Obviously they served a different puprose, as well. Were they mainline passenger locos?
On the Western Region, the largest engines were 4-6-0's. The Kings were the top link ones, and the Castles were the mainstay of most of the other top trains. The hundreds of other 4-6-0's took care of most of the passenger trains, plus a lot of freights. On the other regions, the 4-6-0's were mixed traffic machines, with most top link passenger trains being in the hands of pacifics. Pics of more classes to follow
Hi Alan Don't forget the great experiment, no 111 the Great Bear was a pacific, but, for some obtuse reason had inside bearing trailing truck which regularly overheated, so eventually it was converted into the Castle Class. Sometimes I wonder what the influence on Churchward, Collett and Hawksworth and development of the GWR standard 4-6-0's might have been if it had had outside axleboxes like virtually all other pacifics and had been a success
