Here's a little Quiz...

Having been doing some sketching on the PC I thought I'd give you this little teaser - what is it, who built it and who designed it... Its not that difficult or obscure so if you know don't post the answer immediately and spoil the fun (if any) for those who don't know. It is - as the file name will tell you, very lightly disguised.

 

Here's my take on it. This 4-4-0 looks like a mixture of a NER cab and a GER chimney but the loco hails from another railway entirely. It was rebuilt in the form you show in 1903 and it has a famous cousin of the same wheel arrangement which went very fast. By 1906 it didn't resemble your drawing because the boiler was changed and its commodious cab was removed and replaced with something much more akin to company practice! I have to say at this point that I never saw this loco in the flesh!

 

Its name had Shakespearean echoes.

Paul H.

 

It's from the GWR!

 

its defo an GWR engine or one absorbed into the GWR,

 

Badminton class No. 3297 Earl Cawdor?

 

Swindon didn't believe in safety valves.

 

I think so!

 

Maybe safety valves not required due to poor steam generating qualities of boiler ;o)

Alan

 

cant beat a good Belpaire :-D

 

Yes, as folk who recognised the distinctive beast gave away rather earlier in the plot than I had hoped, it is a sketch of Badminton Class 3297 Earl Cawdor in 1903. It seems that Churchward, always open to outside ideas, accepted a suggestion from his Chief Draughtsman that they should trial a large boiler with big reservoir capacity. She was run for a good three years trial like that, so a really good control test of the big North Eastern boiler style against Churchward's "own" new american style tapered boilers. Apparently the enginemen loathed the big cab so much that it got taken off early, long before the boiler went. Naturally I removed the GWR safety valve cover - bit too much of a giveaway!