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Indeed yes. One quite homourous thing springs to mind. If you see prewar printed poster type adverts for the "foreign" [i.e. none British] market advertising for the Big 4 plus the London Passenger Transport Board. They are collectivally advertised as "British Railways."

Indeed shades of the parliamentary enquiry into the setting up of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. An "Honourable Member" ask the L&M's chief engineer;..... "and if a cow should happen upon the line Mr Stephenson?" After a bit thought Mr Stephenson replied; "Be rather unfortunate for the...

Indeed talking of the Leamside line [old ECML] the freight operators would be really interested in it's rebuilding. As with a bit of thought they could take quite a lot of their admittedly at moment dwindling services off the ECML 'tween York and Tyne Yard. In so much as they could come off the...

Speaking of the Kylchap chimney somewhat ironically the patent expired not long after the great man himself in 1941, or so I seem to recall. As you say MarkyT it was the cost of the licenses that put pay to the LNER fitting them, along with the War being at it's height and the UK being alone...

Yes though which one off hand I can't remember. If it wasn't directly from one of his, he certain made a contribution to another with the boiler swapping 'tween the two classes, that had taken place.

Indeed when the "Plant" [Doncaster Works] modified and started fitting the A4 boilers to the A3s, it wasn't specifically mentioned to the various sheds on Eastern/North Eastern/Scottish Regions. The result being when Kings Cross Top Shed needed some superheater elements, for an A3, they ordered...

In short yes. Though to go into further detail, you will note that there is/are a couple of short copper pipes from the boiler barrel into the top of the 'box and a pair one either side that run back to the under/lower sides of the barrel to return the water from this "jacket". Ok on later...

There is "talk" that the A1 boys have a V4 in their sights as the third new build after the P2 2007 Prince of Wales. The other possibilities being a V tank [V1 or V3] or a K3 2-6-0