Steam loco on rival turf

[TGV]

On ECML between Huntingdon and Peterborough this morning and this rolls past.

Seems a way from it's home ground. I wonder how welcome this would have been here back in the 1930's!

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Ah, I was wondering where I put that :roll:

She is a beauty when she runs and it's kinda like The Earl when he went up that way last year. How welcome would she have been at York in the same era

Great pic BTW

 

[mumrar]

On ECML between Huntingdon and Peterborough this morning and this rolls past.

Seems a way from it's home ground. I wonder how welcome this would have been here back in the 1930's!

Don't forget the famous exchange trials which saw all of the big four's express locomotives competing on rival turf officially.

 

[The Decapod]

Don't forget the famous exchange trials which saw all of the big four's express locomotives competing on rival turf officially.

Didn't the LMS even try to get the GWR to build them a batch of Castle class locos? - A request which was turned down!

 

[LE Greys]

Don't forget the famous exchange trials which saw all of the big four's express locomotives competing on rival turf officially.

Plus the various swaps between companies for various reasons, Pendennis Castle operating out of King's Cross for a while in exchange for Victor Wild (I think) going to Old Oak. The LMS also had a Castle for a while. Apparently, there was a bit of industrial espionage during the Pendennis visit, resulting in exact drawings of the Castle's long-travel valve gear appearing on Gresley's desk at King's Cross, hence the valve gear modifications to the A1s.
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Didn't the LMS even try to get the GWR to build them a batch of Castle class locos? - A request which was turned down!

Owing to lack of capacity at Swindon, where they were trying to build the King class at the time. In the end, the Southern provided some drawings for the Lord Nelsons, leading to a decidedly Nelsonian look to the Royal Scots, despite their obvious differences (three cylinders instead of four and so on). I've often wondered if the number 6100 was deliberately chosen to be a little higher than 6000.

 

[HST Power]

That's an excellent picture. I am quite sure there was a similar one on the forum not so long ago, in the same place, showing a steam loco (can't remember which) speeding alongside a GNER HST.