Early Days ⁽⁷⁾

Mr. J. Ramsbottom

1858 — DX Goods ⁽³⁾
1863 — 4ft Shunter ⁽³⁾
1870 — Special Tank ⁽²⁾

Mr. F.W. Webb

1873 — Coal Engine ⁽⁴⁾
1880 — 18in Goods ⁽⁵⁾
1881 — Special DX ⁽²⁾
1881 — Coal Tanks ⁽²⁾
1893 — ‘A’ class ⁽²⁾
1894 — Crane Tank ⁽²⁾
1896 — Dock Tank ⁽²⁾
1901 — ‘B’ class ⁽²⁾
1903 — 1400 Class ⁽²⁾

Mr. G. Whale

1904 — ‘C’ class ⁽³⁾
1904 — ‘E’ class ⁽³⁾
1906 — ‘D’ class ⁽²⁾
1906 — ‘F’ class ⁽²⁾
1906 — ‘G’ class ⁽¹⁾
1912 — ‘G1’ class ⁽⁵⁾
1906 — 19in Goods ⁽³⁾

Mr. C.J. Bowen Cooke

1911 — 1185 class ⁽²⁾

Capt. H.P.M. Beames

1923 — 380 class ⁽²⁾

Ex GCR

1919 — ‘MM’ class ⁽²⁾

No.1487 ‘G1’ class 0-8-0

Click on picture for bigger image.   LNWRS Photo Ref 9418

This super picture is a gorgeous classic worth examining in detail: It shows ‘G1’ class  0-8-0 No.1487 rousing the town as it sets out from Northampton past Duston West signal box   with sixty wagons of coal for London. Anyone who has heard one of these splendid engines cannot help but hear the delightful sound effects in their mind as they picture it climbing away into the distance, the wagons trundling a weighty thunk-thunk, thunk-thunk, thunk-thunk as they pass. Just look at the sheer length of that train! Yet No.1487 will keep it at 28—32 mph all the way whenever it is given free rein. This was the LNWR keeping industry and the business of Britain at work. Can you see the man leaning on a pram, watching in the field?

‘G1’ Locomotive Class