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A nice shot of olive green liveried 1402 on Bournemouth shed in
1933.
photograph: Mike Morant collection |
| N class 31411 at Chichester, 6 July 1958, on a Portsmouth -
Victoria van train, one of several which then ran along the coast en-route to
London. In those days the stop at Chichester was mainly to load GPO parcels
bags and flowers - the latter was a huge traffic then.
photograph by Trevor Tupper |
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Changes to details and modifications happened throughout
the class' lifetime. Some of the most pertinent points have been summarised
by SEmG member Tony Harker:
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31845 waits at Halwill as T9 class
30709 runs in with a train for Padstow and Bude on 21st April 1960.
photograph reproduced with kind permission of Joanes Publications |
| N class 31832 with an up goods train arrives at Port Isaac
Road on 6th September 1961.
photograph reproduced with kind permission of Joanes Publications |
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| The N class was a reliable locomotive used throughout the SR network over a wide range of duties from semi fast passenger duties to pick-up goods. Their high capacity boilers, small coupled wheels, and free steaming characteristics delivered considerable traffic effort that was much in evidence when the class excelled itself hauling heavy loads during World War Two. The class migrated from the SR Eastern section to work additionally on the Central and Western sections, and in their latter BR(S) days continued to excel on passenger and goods duties in the West Country. Withdrawals were between 1962 to 1966. |
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31837 waits for her allotted departure time at Bude sometime
during the early 1960s.
photograph by John Bradbeer |
| Drawings of the N class are in "Southern Locomotives to Scale" by Ian Beattie, pub. D. Bradford Barton, ISBN 0 85153 389 2, but these are not accurately to 4mm scale (1/76), and the March 1996 edition of Railway Modeller page 119 which are more accurate. Weight diagrams are available in "Maunsell Locomotives" by Brian Haresnape , ISBN 0 7110 0734 8 and "A Pictorial Record of Southern Locomotives" by JH Russell Published by BCA/OPC (no ISBN given). These drawings are near enough to scale. No detailing is shown however. |
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