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adequate for the very heavy trains found on 

 the various main lines of this big group. 



Sir Henry Fowler has been blamed, in 

 some quarters, for adding so rapidly to a 

 class of engine which lacks great tractive 

 effort, especially when the vast number of 

 powerful 4-4-05 of various designs are avail- 

 able for the medium and light-weight 

 trains, especially, too, when the amount of 

 double-heading on the L.M.S. is con- 

 sidered. But quite a good deal of the 

 criticism is of the usual ill-informed variety, 

 and has been largely based upon some 

 garbled accounts of the working of the 

 newer compounds. 



In point of fact some of them were 

 assigned to North- Western drivers, many 

 of whom had a rooted objection to 

 compounds, because of their vivid and 

 painful recollections of the failure of the 

 Webb three-cylindered machines, built on 

 the compound plan. Mishandled, the fine 

 Derby compounds could not achieve even 

 moderate results. But those drivers who 

 undertook duty upon them with an unbiased 



