1 8 Book of Locomotives 



repairs which had to be undertaken to fit 

 them for duty next day. 



Gooch soon obtained permission to 

 scrap practically the whole of the first 

 engines on the condition that he designed, 

 and had built, some better machines. This 

 he proceeded to do at once. Soon he had 

 running some really splendid single-drivers, 

 with names that were very fitting. Thus, 

 there was the " Firefly ", " Fire King ", 

 " Sun ", and " Fury ", to mention a few. 

 These fine little machines soon brought 

 the name of the Great Western to the 

 fore as the line where speed might be 

 found. The narrow-gauge protagonists 

 were troubled; it did seem, after all, that 

 there was something in the boast of the 

 seven-foot railway. A son of the Trevithick, 

 whom we can truly call the " father of the 

 locomotive ", was in charge at Crewe, the 

 headquarters of the northern section of 

 the recently formed London and North- 

 Western Railway. He decided that the 

 broad gauge should not have it all their 

 own way. Trevithick, therefore, designed 



