4-6-2 Duchess Class BR Black

4-6-2 Duchess Class BR Black

4-6-2 Duchess Class in BR Black.

46233 DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND 46234 DUCHESS OF ABERCORN 46245 CITY OF LONDON
46248 CITY OF LEEDS 46249 CITY OF SHEFFIELD 46250 CITY OF LICHFIELD
46251 CITY OF NOTTINGHAM 46252 CITY OF LEICESTER 46256 SIR WILLIAM A. STANIER FRS
46257 CITY OF SALFORD

City of Nottingham and City of Stoke-On-Trent feature the coat of arms for the city above the nameplate and it's possible for users to add their own crests by replacing the alphanum_6c.tga file in the alpha numbers directory.

Don't forget to try out the New Cab view option in UTC using [ or ], for some exciting action on the rails.

1937 was the coronation year of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and both the LNER and the LMS had launched new fast streamlined trains linking London and Scotland - the Coronation express on the LNER and the Coronation Scot on the LMS. The West Coast route of the LMS to Glasgow was by far more difficult so their's was the need for an extra powerful locomotive. This they achieved in the form of the 'Princess Coronation' class, and it wasn't long before Coronation itself had wrested the speed record from the LNER at 114 mph.

Although the 'Princess Royal' class was a vast leap forward in LMS motive power, improved services by the LNER to Scotland and the fashiom for streamlined locomotive design in the mid-1930's meant that the LMS needed something to top the Princess Royal class. Stanier threw away a lot of his earlier design policies inherited from the GWR and came up with what is considered to be his finest creation, the 'Princess Coronation' class (sometimes referred as the 'Duchess' class); this despite the fact that he personally felt (and probably with some justification considering later events) that streamlining was a waste of time, at least with the facilities that the LMS had at the time. The LMS wanted a engine capable of hauling long-range expresses in excess of 100mph; on the 29th June 1937, the first engine of the class 6220 Coronation exceeded these expectations, reaching a speed of at least 113mph on the inaugural run of the 'Coronation Scot', the LMS's new London-Glasgow express (although the run nearly ended in disaster when the express hit the Crewe approaches at excessive speed; fortunately the train stayed on the track).

Sir William Stanier's 'Princess-Coronation' class Pacifics of the LMS (often referred to as 'Duchesses') were redoubtable contemporaries of Sir Nigel Gresley's LNER 4-6-2s. As one writer put it, …the Stanier Duchess was a splendid Thermopylae to the A4's Cutty Sark , and it is fitting that their designers were close friends despite the fierce rivalry and intense commercial competition between their respective railways.

Introduced in 1938 as a development of the earlier 'Princess' class 4-6-2s, the 'Duchesses' were arguably the most powerful steam locomotives ever to run in Britain. A sustained drawbar horsepower figure of 2910 was recorded on test, and performance maxima suggest that short-term outputs of up to about 3300dbhp were available on occasions. Early members of the class were streamlined but later examples were built with a more conventional outline. All were subsequently rebuilt to the later form, producing locomotives which many commentators have considered handsome and beautifully proportioned. Three are preserved, of which two are from the batch named after duchesses and the other (City of Birmingham) is from the later group which carried the names of cities served by the LMS.

In terms of tractive effort, the 'Duchesses' were fractionally less powerful than the 'Princess Royals' (40,000 lb compared with 40,300 lb), having larger 6ft 9in diameter driving wheels, but on test Duchess of Abercorn had proved what formidable engines they were. The boiler was larger, too, with a cavernous firebox said to stretch a fireman to 'the limits of human endurance'. Some assistance was offered to him by a steam-operated mechanical coal pusher in the tender, to bring coal forward to his firing position. At one time, mechanical automatic stokers

Author: Allan Rees

4-6-2 Duchess Class BR Black
• config.txt 12.24KB
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duchess_br_black_art
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duchess_br_black_art_512.tga 1.00MB
duchess_br_black_art_icon.texture.txt 97 bytes
duchess_br_black_art_icon.tga 16.02KB
duchess_br_black_body
black.texture.txt 28 bytes
black.tga 1.28KB
brass lamp.texture.txt 33 bytes
brass lamp.tga 12.53KB
brassy.texture.txt 29 bytes
brassy.tga 12.53KB
bronzy dark.texture.txt 34 bytes
bronzy dark.tga 12.53KB
bronzy.texture.txt 29 bytes
bronzy.tga 12.53KB
buffer red.texture.txt 33 bytes
buffer red.tga 12.02KB
charcoal.texture.txt 31 bytes
charcoal.tga 12.02KB
digit_2a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_2a.tga 16.53KB
digit_3a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_3a.tga 16.53KB
digit_4a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_4a.tga 16.53KB
digit_5a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_5a.tga 16.53KB
digit_6a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_6a.tga 16.53KB
digit_6b.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_6b.tga 96.53KB
digit_6c.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_6c.tga 12.53KB
duchess cabside black.texture.txt 44 bytes
duchess cabside black.tga 768.53KB
duchess_br_black_body.pm 2.20MB
env_metal.texture.txt 32 bytes
env_metal.tga 48.02KB
fire.texture.txt 27 bytes
fire.tga 192.53KB
lms blackyblack.texture.txt 38 bytes
lms blackyblack.tga 192.53KB
lmsbr black.texture.txt 34 bytes
lmsbr black.tga 12.02KB
mallard brako.texture.txt 36 bytes
mallard brako.tga 192.53KB
mallard presso.texture.txt 37 bytes
mallard presso.tga 192.53KB
mallard speedo.texture.txt 37 bytes
mallard speedo.tga 192.53KB
metaldsk dark.texture.txt 36 bytes
metaldsk dark.tga 768.53KB
silver.texture.txt 29 bytes
silver.tga 12.04KB
wheel cover black.texture.txt 40 bytes
wheel cover black.tga 384.53KB
• screenshot.jpg 3.48KB