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ably be found on the fliers of the new 

 London extension line of the Manchester, 

 Sheffield and Lincoln, when opened. We 

 also expect to see shortly the 4-2-2 at the 

 head of the fastest expresses on the North- 

 Eastern." 



That was the considered view of a writer 

 who knew something of his subject, since 

 he was contributing a regular causerie on 

 the locomotive, month by month, to that 

 particular journal. But how hopelessly wrong 

 was he when he predicted long life to the 

 graceful single-driver, surely the best looking 

 type of engine ever evolved ! The ink could 

 scarcely have been dry from his pen when 

 the big 4-4-0 was being designed on the 

 Caledonian and North-Eastern, and the 

 ' Atlantic " on the Lancashire and York- 

 shire and Great Northern railways. These 

 were the two wheel types which dealt the 

 single-wheeler its deathblow, but the ever 

 increasing loads had already made the fate 

 of the 4-2-2 practically certain. At the 

 moment of writing there are no single- 

 drivers regularly at work on British railways ; 



