Comments on: 8 Castles (not 6 A4s) for ‘GWR 180′? http://everythinggwr.com/2013/06/8-castles-not-6-a4s-for-gwr-180/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=8-castles-not-6-a4s-for-gwr-180 Celebrating the Great Western Railway from 1835 to now Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:50:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: JimC http://everythinggwr.com/2013/06/8-castles-not-6-a4s-for-gwr-180/#comment-240 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 09:48:20 +0000 http://everythinggwr.com/?p=1350#comment-240 It would be a bit of a challenge to take on the much bigger Gresley locomotives now since after seeing Pendennis Castle, Gresley fixed most of the major errors in his design, notably the poor valve gear.

Of course one should never forget the final arbiter – Collett’s locomotives played their part in the GWR making a profit in the 1930s, and Gresley’s their part in the LNER making a loss…

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