The Midland Railway Engines are steam engines who once visited the North Western Railway on loan from the Midland Railway and Furness Railway.
Biography
The Railway Series
The North Western Railway faced an engine shortage in its early days. Aside from the Coffee Pots and the four Wellsworth and Suddery Railway Tank Engines, the railway had no engines of its own. As a result, engines were leased from the Midland Railway and Furness Railway on the Mainland until more could be purchased, and they were heavily relied on during the First World War. Edward was one of the engines to arrive, largely due to this arrangement. [1]
By 1923, most of these engines had returned to their original railways and replacements had been secured. Their fates are unknown. No precise details of these engines were given, so little is known about them. Some may possibly be some of the 80 other undocumented engines on the NWR. [1] The first [2] and second [3] red tender engines are believed to possibly be some of these engines; as the real Midland Railway engines were also painted in red liveries.
Technical Details
Basis
These engines are based on the real locomotives of the Midland Railway.
A Midland Railway Johnson 0-6-0 (re-classfied as LMS Johnson Class "3F" 0-6-0 No. 3512) makes an illustrated appearance in the Japanese book, Thomas Goods Encyclopedia.
Livery
The Midland Railway used the crimson lake livery for its passenger trains from 1883 until 1923, when the MR and other railways were merged into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). The LMS then adopted this livery.
Appearances
The Railway Series
Companion volumes
- 1987 - The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways (mentioned)
Trivia
- In Thomas Goods Encyclopedia, James' basis is inaccurately depicted as an LMS Johnson Class 3F.
- The Hornby James was manufactured using a Triang LMS 3F with altered moulding around the smokebox, extended frames and added pony-truck.
- Interestingly, in the annual story, Donald's Duck, James was incorrectly illustrated as an LMS Fowler Class 4F. These locomotives represent the ultimate development of Midland Railway's six coupled tender engines.
Gallery
References
| Locomotives | Steam | 87546 and 98462 | Workshop Engines | Big City Engine | Jinty and Pug | City of Truro | Stepney | Bluebell and Primrose | Adams | Cromford | Captain Baxter | Flying Scotsman | Toby's Brothers | 8783 | 1020 | Stephenson's Rocket | Green Arrow | Boxhill | Iron Duke | Mallard | Duchess of Hamilton | Wilbert | Sixteen | Albert | King James I | Bahamas |
|---|---|---|
| Diesel | Diesel | Diesel 4711 | Diesel 199 | Diesel 40125 | Diesel 31120 | 10751 | |
| Rolling Stock | Helena | |
| People | Elizabeth II | The Thin Clergyman | The Fat Clergyman | |
| Stations | Barrow-in-Furness | Brighton | Carnforth | Crewe | Euston | Horsted Keynes | King's Cross | Lakeside | Norchard | Paddington | St. Pancras | York | |
| Railways | Bluebell Railway | British Railways | Corris Railway | Dean Forest Railway | Ffestiniog Railway | Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway | Snowdon Mountain Railway | Talyllyn Railway | Toby's Old Tramway | |