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In a book entitled Wheels, inevitably there is a preponderance of photographs of locomotives. Equally, with no discipline of railway, region, time, st
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In a book entitled Wheels, inevitably there is a preponderance of photographs of locomotives. Equally, with no discipline of railway, region, time, style, size or sequence, the selection of photographs, other than my own, is both easy through abundance and difficult through embarrassement de richesse. Spanning the gap between the Victorian era of Ramsbottom or Barton Wright, Kirtley or David Jones (the choice is legion) or
the final flowering of steam by Stanier, Gresley or Bulleid,
stands Sir Gilbert Claughton himself (herself?): No 2222
appropriately enters Crewe station on 2 March 1913. The
‘Claughton’ had especially large wheel-centres. How I wish it had been my camera! That magnificent signal gantry reminds us, if necessary, of the complexity of working practice established and mastered not only by the Premier Line’, but by all the main Pre-Grouping railways. This was a real’ world-of men, of achievement, of pride and precision, and of long-lasting, well-built machines – such as that last LNWR 2-4-0 to remain in service No 793 (LMS No 5101), just visible on the left of this marvellous scene, a scene never to be recaptured. It was indeed another world.
