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A fine machine of the 'seventies is the 

 o-6-o Bouch engine, built for the Stockton 

 and Darlington section of the North- 

 Eastern. Because this line was sponsored 

 by Quakers this name was usually applied 

 to the Bouch's engines too. Only within 

 recent years has the last of the type been 

 withdrawn from service. Here we may 

 deplore that there is a tremendous gap in 

 locomotive design in the museum extend- 

 ing as it does from 1870 to 1882. Yet in 

 that period some of the most interest- 

 ing locomotives ever seen on rails were 

 built. 



It is too late now to supply the original 

 machines, but perhaps it may be suggested 

 to those responsible that, where working 

 drawings are in existence, the example of 

 the Great Western should be followed and 

 life-size models of famous engines be added 

 to the museum. Even if only the outward 

 form were maintained and the movement, 

 etc., was absent, much would have been 

 done to bridge this deplorable gap. In the 

 Bouch engines the long boiler introduced 



