Locomotive passenger engine

Locomotive passenger engine

Image Details

Title Longitudinal section
Archive Reference END/10/2/1/4
Description Inscribed '12 passenger engines built to the designs of John Gray, London & Brighton Railway Locomotive Superintendent. By Timothy Hackworth, Newcastle. 2 delivered Nov 1846, 10 by 1848 to the London & Brighton Railway [renamed London Brighton and South Coast Railway]. They made a very smart passenger engine, thought they looked clumsy. I travelled on one to London with 14 carriages, easily doing 40 mph continuously up the 1 in 264'. Scale 1 1/2 inches: 1 foot.
Creator David Joy
Copyright Unknown
Date of Creation Nov 1846
Media Watercolour and pencil on paper
Dimensions 630x955 mm