56 Book of Locomotives 



single driver in its last phase and the 

 4-6-0. 



Whale, on the North-Western, gave us 

 his famous 4-4-0 " Precursors '" in 1904, 

 with boilers and other details following 

 close on the type last mentioned. On the 

 Great Western Mr. Dean produced his 

 famed " Atbaras ", with inside cylinders 

 and coned boilers, and from these have 

 come the outside-cylindered " Counties ", 

 arriving the same year as the " Precursors ' 

 on the North-Western, but vastly different 

 engines in appearance. Then came a 

 reversion in the 4-4-0 upon the Great 

 Western to the inside cylindered " Flower " 

 class; these ended the 4-4-0 building 

 in 1909 on what was then our longest 

 railway. 



Very similar engines to the North- Western 

 ' George the Fifths ", which appeared in 

 1910 (differing very slightly in boiler and 

 cylinder details from the "Precursors"), 

 were added on the Midland, Great Eastern, 

 South- Western, London, Brighton and 

 South Coast and the North British, whilst 



