1 02 Book of Locomotives 



1,878 square feet. They have done, and 

 are doing magnificent work. The later 

 " Schools "' class are at once the biggest 

 and most powerful 4-4-03 in the kingdom. 

 These have very similar boilers to the 

 " King Arthurs ". 



They have been designed to run over 

 lines where the 4-6-0 is not permitted. 



The goods engines have also grown in 

 size and therefore in power with wheel 

 formulae of various kinds and the tank 

 engines have largely followed the tender 

 wheel formulae and dimensions of the pas- 

 senger locomotives. 



On the ist of May, 1928, the London 

 and North-Eastern Railway inaugurated the 

 longest non-stop run, regularly performed 

 either in this country or abroad. The dis- 

 tance between London and Edinburgh is 

 393 miles, and the time taken by the non- 

 stop train is 8J hours, which is exactly the 

 the schedule of the trains which make the 

 usual stops. 



During 1927, both the London, Midland 

 and Scottish and the London and North- 



