Bulleid Firth Brown wheel
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The Bulleid Firth Brown wheel was a locomotive wheel developed for the Southern Railway in the late 1930s. It was a disc wheel, in contrast to the usual spoked wheels in general use on British railway
Bulleid Firth Brown (BFB) wheel
Battle of Britain class 34053 Sir Keith Park
SR Q1 class
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The SR Q1 class is a type of austerity steam locomotive constructed during the Second World War. The class was designed by Oliver Bulleid for use on the intensive freight turns experienced during wart
Bulleid Firth Brown wheel
…BFB was developed in 1938 for use on Bulleid's innovative Merchant Navy class of Pacific locomotives. He later used them on all subsequent designs: the Q1 "austerity class" in 1942; his Light Pacifics (the West Country and Battle of Britain classes) in 1945; and his Leader class in 1946. The pacifics also used a similar…
Basingstoke station, with empty stock being reversed out geograph 2646808 by Ben Brooksbank
Note the steeply inclined piston valves of the inside cylinders
No. 33016 at Feltham Locomotive Depot 11 May 1959.
Southern C1 (8269510295)