English Steam Locomotives

Beautiful beautiful----

In 1925, after Southern Railway President Fairfax Harrison beheld London & North Eastern sleek, elegant Pacifics, given almost aerodynamically sleek lines by Sir Nigel Gresley,  at King's Cross Station in London, he specified that a series of heavy Pacifics being constructed at Richmond Locomotive Works be painted in that green livery. No. 1401 in the Smithsonian is the sole survivor. After shopping at Spencer, her paint was mixed according to the original formula.

Fairfax Harrison had come to the Southern as a solicitor who had graduated from Yale-Columbia Law School. In 1913, he edited for Americans the treatises of Cato and Varro on Roman farm management. He had seen copies of those worksin a book stall on the Quair Voltaire in Paris. They had recalled for him not olive groves in the Roman campagna, but of "the blue hills of a far distant Virginia where the corn was beginning to tassel and the fat cattle were loafing in the pasture." ~ The Georgian Locomotive, by H. Stafford Bryant, Jr. New York: Weathervane Books, 1962, p.4

Nice pics. What was the time and place? I get the impression it was a special display occasion with some of the locos steamed up.

the place is our local Train museum it's the sister to the big York Railway museum in York City here in England there's pictures from different times 

( I'm not sure if I have included these pics before if so sorry there was plenty to look at )

Ref the Southern  here's a photo from our USA theme last Sunday at the HORNBY Club

the same day I made the Flying Scotsman video that I can't put on here ?

glad that some one found this of interest

Neat little thing 

Nice photos, thanks for posting. Always interesting to see the British and European trains.