66 Book of Locomotives 



class, which came out in the closing months 

 of the War, two cylinders were reverted to, 

 and, in many respects, the big boilered two- 

 cylinder machines on the Great Western 

 were copied. These engines are now 

 counted in with the famous " King Arthurs >: 

 of Mr. Maunsell's design, also two-cylin- 

 der ed. These latter are fine locomotives in 

 every way, and they will not be entirely 

 superseded by the still bigger and later 

 " Lord Nelsons ". 



The * Lord Nelsons >! are amongst 

 Britain's most powerful express engines, 

 and they successfully deal with 46o-ton 

 trains at high speed. The pioneer has 

 already touched the 8o-mile-an-hour pace 

 which marks the fleet locomotive, and later 

 with a 6oo-ton train she gained time quite 

 easily on a fairly tight schedule. The " Lord 

 Nelsons " may be taken to be the nearest 

 approach to the Great Western " Castles ' 

 yet seen, the tractive effort of these engines 

 being within a few pounds of each other. 

 The Lancashire and Yorkshire were another 

 convert to the six-coupler in 1905, and they 



