LBSCR class H1 and H2 "Atlantic" 4-4-2
| Nº32425 Trevose Head at East Croydon with what
appears to have been the relief down Newhaven Boat Train. Date of photo not
known.
photograph by Mike Morant |
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Nº32422 North Foreland in rather grubby early BR
livery with BRITISH RAILWAYS only just discernable on her tender.
photograph: Mike Morant collection |
| Nº32424 Beachy Head passing New Wandsworth goods
yard with the Farewell Atlantic Tour on 13th April 1958. The 6 Pul/6 Pan has
been diverted to the down slow line on this occasion!
photograph: Mike Morant collection |
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Some ten minutes later Beachy Head storms over the brow
of the hill from Streatham Common and into Norbury station with the Farewell
Atlantic Tour.
photograph by Mike Morant |
| A sad sight! Trevose Head withdrawn and minus connecting
and coupling rods, photographed at Slade Green where she was used from 30th
December 1956 to April 1957 as a boiler to heat the electric depot while the
permanent plant was being converted from coal to oil.
photograph: Mike Morant collection |
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| It is noteworthy that not only was Beachy Head the last of the Brighton Atlantics, she was also the last surviving British Railways express locomotive of that wheel arrangement and it is a crime that none was preserved. However, with plans advancing at the Bluebell Railway to build a new Brighton Atlantic (utilising a GNR Atlantic boiler) it may not be all that long before we can travel behind a 4-4-2 locomotive once more. |
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