Bulleid Leader & Pacifics S.R. era & Q1 Class S.R. & B.R. era

Ugly or forward thinking (Even looks like an early class 66)
Bulleid’s Leader class
https://tinyurl.com/54xp3s35

Neil

 

Collection of photos of Bulleid’s Merchant Navy class in r the Southern Railway era
40 photos including the naming ceremony of
21C1 Channel Packet
https://tinyurl.com/a57jztcn
Collection starts here
https://tinyurl.com/k8fps7sv

Neil

 

Collection of photos of Bulleid’s Light Pacifics in the Southern Railway era
45 photos including one new photo
21C159 (still to be named Sir Archibald Sinclair) near Southampton
https://tinyurl.com/p3tzkc2s

Full collection starts here
https://tinyurl.com/4v2mvweh
to
https://tinyurl.com/mhzkkfuk
to
https://tinyurl.com/35ycnwpt

Neil

 

Hi Neil,

AN interesting selection.
12/45 21C119 is at Dover Marine, not Victoria. No 3rd rail and the footbridge is the same as image 34/45.

Cheers, Neil

 

Bulleid Q1 Class ‘Coffee Pots’
S.R. era
UID Q1 Piloting a Merchant Navy class loco with nameplate covered
https://tinyurl.com/ycks9cw9
B.R. era 115 photos starts here with
33001
https://tinyurl.com/yc644jwx

Neil

 

Don't know why this "Leader" machine you speak of is the only Bullied Pacific thing to be considered Ugly, I think all of his Pacifics were ugly, as well unnecessary and a complete waste of metal.

He really hit the nail on the bonce when he built the Q1's and his quite sturdy coaches, honestly such a talented man wasted on some hyped-up passenger engine.

 

I have added a collection of photos featuring
'The Elizabethan' Altringham Railway Excursion Society tour 22nd October 1966
All photos are of 35026 Lamport and Holt Line at York
https://tinyurl.com/p927snvd

Neil

 

A rare view of staff putting the finishing touches to Southern Railway's Oliver Bulleid's Leader Class 0-6-6-0T 'experimental steam locomotive at Eastleigh Works not long after completion ....circa June 1949.

Image source scrapbook scan / via atlantic.

 

Merchant Navy

51 / 128 = Templecombe
76 / 128 Approaching Salisbury from the west
79 / 128 = Battledown [See 80 + 127 / 128]

Light Pacific

33 / 42 = Redbridge Causeway

Q1

5 / 130 = Stewarts Lane [note building in background
13 / 130 = As for 12/130 - same working !
19 / 130 = Feltham ?
21 / 130 = Bristol Barrow Road

Perhaps you need to bear in mind the conditions when the locomotives were designed and built - the start of WWII and the appreciated requirements for military movements at major docks when the locomotive stock was short of current requirements. Bulleid introduced new concepts to his designs and whilst operating conditions proved some ideas impractical the locomotives met the required need for additional more powerful locomotives. Admittedly the later Jarvis modifications improved these designs beyond measure but it is fair to say that the modifications to the Pacifics (both classes) were made to a good basic design.