Locomotive passenger engine

Locomotive passenger engine

Image Details

Title Longitudinal section
Creator David Joy
Date of Creation Nov 1846
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.
Archive Reference END/10/2/1/4
Media Watercolour and pencil on paper
Dimensions 630x955 mm