BR Standard 9F Volume One

[@AllenORourke1954]

These locomotives did sterling work hauling iron ore trains up the steep slopes to Consett in County Durham, 92063 pulled the last steam hauled ore train in November 1966; spruced up for the day and named "The Tyne Docker", wonderful engines...

[@Trainboy452]

Please! I want some peace and quiet!

[@jisanchan]

SHUT UP MURDOCH!

[@bridazzel7588]

And I don’t want to share a shed with chatterboxes!

[@jamesaiuto8199]

It's Murdoch from Thomas and friends!

[@frederickmiles327]

It seems ridiculous that most of this class were built so late in the day after the decision to phase out steam in the 1954 modernisation plan a very limited plan for improving British rail replacing high power steam engines almost entirely with low power 1000-2000hp. Interesting that the other two large classes of BR standard steam , Class 5 mixed traffic of 171 engines and the 155 standard class 4 tanks were also built late in the day in 1955-57, more of both classes were in order with quite a few more frames complete, but production of all by the 9F was curtailed totally at the end of 1957.

[@GBRf66715_]

I think the same tbh. If you look at the Chinese and how they were running steam till last year then the 9F’s would have a massive fighting chance. A matter of fact I’d love to see a 9F being worked on one of their coal trains and if I did own a 9F I’d certainly lend it

[@stephensmith799]

It's a fine looking locomotive that many people will know, started out on the design board as a 2-8-2 with bigger driving wheels, which I think would have looked even better and would not have been as hot as a 9F is on the fireman's trouser legs (having a lower firebox grate)…. a nice might-have-been.. An 8MT?

[@frederickmiles327]

The 9F was justified as a fast freight engine but in the 1965-67 it was largely the Britannia and Black 5 that were used on fast mail and fitted freight particularly on the West Coast main line between Manchester and Glasgow while the last 8 Gresley A3, pair of A2 and couple of Hawksworth A4 were retained as much for the heavy fast mail, parcels and fitted freight between Aberdeen and Edinburgh and Glasgow to Aberdeen. In the early 1960s the predominant fast mail and passenger on the old LNER routes was certainly the 2-6-2 V2 and the success of the French 141R 2-8-2 and the Lima 2-8-4 the only real production steam in the US post war in 1947-9 on the Nickel Plate and Louisville and Nashville suggests the 2-8-2 concept was probably more the need on British rail .

[@thatoneperson4930]

Murdoch

[@SeniorBolainas]

Murdoch :D

[@arrowhasautism9953]

I'll jump on the train its murdoch

[@AhmearClayIombo-dj6di]

Murdoch