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on the South-Eastern and Chatham railway 

 nothing bigger than the 4-4-0 was found 

 until the grouping saw some of the new 

 " King Arthur " 4-6-03 tried there. Also 

 the latest 4-4-0 design in Britain, Mr. 

 Maunsell's fine three-cylindered " School " 

 class machines are being introduced. 



The Midland compounds, of the 4-4-0 

 wheel type, have been greatly multiplied 

 upon the London, Midland and Scottish, 

 and the Great Central * Director ' class 

 has been added to on the London and 

 North-Eastern though the three-cylindered 

 1 Shire " class of 4-4-0 is now standard. 



Therefore the 4-4-0 persists and is likely 

 to persist on British railways. 



In considering locomotive practice, it is 

 remarkable how persistently the influence 

 of the goods engine has been felt in pas- 

 senger practice. The express single-driver 

 gave over the struggle to the four-coupled 

 class, which, in its earliest days, had been 

 considered a goods type, pure and simple. 

 But a good many miles were to be run, 

 under great handicaps, before our engineers 



