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influenced the brothers Worsdell, and 

 later Sir Vincent Raven, in favour of the 

 4-4-2. 



It is remarkable that the 4-6-0 was never 

 seen on the Great Northern, nor was the 

 4-4-0 ever employed save for minor express 

 duties. The " Speedy Line ", as it liked to 

 be called, passed straight from the 4-2-2 

 to the 4-4-2, and from the latter straight 

 to the 4-6-2. Of these types we shall speak 

 later. 



The 4-6-0 having been well tried for 

 roughly five years on the Scotch and two 

 English lines mentioned, we find a distinct 

 swing on the part of British designers to 

 this useful type. Within a comparatively 

 short space of time the London and North- 

 Western, Great Eastern, London and South- 

 western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Great 

 Central, Caledonian, and the Glasgow and 

 South-Western turned to the new type of 

 express engine, and all these railways pro- 

 duced magnificent machines, well suited to 

 what was necessarily a varied range of 

 traffic. 



