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More Train/Railway Memes for the soul it is Railway 200 after all.
Basically in 1941 the Southern Railway (UK) wanted some more powerful express locomotives for their Continental Boat trains and had hired on Oliver Bulleid from the LNER (That’s the one Flying Scotsman’s from) to design new large express locomotives, he had several proposals but it was decided that he should make a Pacific, only issue was it was 1941 and the Government had put a hold on making Express Locomotives.
To cleverly circumvent this Bulleid’s design was fitted with 6’2 driving wheels and labeled as “Mixed Traffic” and whilst yes they could haul freight quite comfortably, if one were to do something absurd such as, I don’t know, Look at them, they’d quickly find that the class was clearly designed for Express Passenger service.
The War Office must have just shaken their heads and just stamped the form rolling their eyes that this supposed clever trick, because yes it was really just an express design with the words “Mixed Traffic” scribbled on it, but the Southern did majorly need the motive power being connected to the Channel Ports so they let it slide.
The Kiwi Trickery header is due to the fact that Bulleid was born and raised if very briefly in Invercargill New Zealand, before moving to the UK at Seven, I just used it as the head because I thought it was funnier.
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Classic Kiwi maneuver sneaky enough to flip the script, cheeky enough to make history laugh.
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Okay Context (Let’s see if I can format it properly this time.)
More Train/Railway Memes for the soul it is Railway 200 after all.
Basically in 1941 the Southern Railway (UK) wanted some more powerful express locomotives for their Continental Boat trains and had hired on Oliver Bulleid from the LNER (That’s the one Flying Scotsman’s from) to design new large express locomotives, he had several proposals but it was decided that he should make a Pacific, only issue was it was 1941 and the Government had put a hold on making Express Locomotives.
To cleverly circumvent this Bulleid’s design was fitted with 6’2 driving wheels and labeled as “Mixed Traffic” and whilst yes they could haul freight quite comfortably, if one were to do something absurd such as, I don’t know, Look at them, they’d quickly find that the class was clearly designed for Express Passenger service.
The War Office must have just shaken their heads and just stamped the form rolling their eyes that this supposed clever trick, because yes it was really just an express design with the words “Mixed Traffic” scribbled on it, but the Southern did majorly need the motive power being connected to the Channel Ports so they let it slide.
The Kiwi Trickery header is due to the fact that Bulleid was born and raised if very briefly in Invercargill New Zealand, before moving to the UK at Seven, I just used it as the head because I thought it was funnier.
Classic Kiwi maneuver sneaky enough to flip the script, cheeky enough to make history laugh.