A look at Stanier’s 8Fs and Freight Operations. OO gauge model Railways скачать в хорошем качестве

A look at Stanier’s 8Fs and Freight Operations. OO gauge model Railways

In 1932 when Stanier became Chief Mechanical Engineers on the LMS most of the freight traffic was being hauled by aging and failing locomotives. Stanier looked to the Great Western for inspiration and the Churchwood 28/100 class. First emerging from Crew works in 1935 the 7Fs as they were then classified so distinguished themselves that they were re rated as 8F. By 1939 126 locomotives had been built and the war department was so impressed with them that they were selected as the standard design for overseas service! 228 were either ordered or taken over for this purpose. On the home front the ministry of transport had also selected the 8Fs as the standard wartime freight locomotive resulting in a further 450 locomotives being built, some were even built at Ashford, Eastleigh and Brighton works among other non LMS railway works. By the end of the war 852 8Fs had been built with 666 making it onto BR books. Ignore my silliness about the BR1B tender lol no idea what I was thinking! #modelrailways #modelrailroad #modeltrains