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Britain, where such tenders are not stan- 

 dard. An arrangement which persisted for 

 many years, and may even now be seen on 

 old engines, has the springs above the 

 tender platform. As a result the space 

 within the sides of the tender is largely 

 encroached upon, and the arrangement 

 always appears rather antiquated. 



We have already noted the effects on the 

 tender which the laying of water-troughs 

 brought about. But, until 1887, the London 

 and North-Western was the only company 

 using the troughs with correspondingly 

 small tenders. These latter were carrying 

 something like 1,800 gallons, whilst on the 

 Midland, which had no troughs until some 

 years after this date, there were heavy 

 tenders, containing over 3,000 gallons, at 

 work. This extra weight must have told 

 on the locomotive, since at that period, 

 boilers were small, and the most popular 

 types of engines for express work were of 

 the single-driver classes. One important 

 difficulty presented itself when the loco- 

 motive began to grow in real earnest; this 



