Oliver Bulleid
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Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid CBE was a British railway and mechanical engineer best known as the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation, developing
Bulleid in 1947
SR Leader class
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The Leader was a class of experimental 0-6-0+0-6-0T steam locomotive, produced in the United Kingdom to the design of the innovative engineer Oliver Bulleid. The Leader was an attempt to extend the li
Oliver Bulleid
…of Britain's only double-deck passenger trains, the two units of the 4DD class. His final steam locomotive design for the SR was the unconventional Leader, appearing in 1949, after nationalisation. This had the boiler, coal and water supplies and everything else encased in a smooth double-ended body…
Leader locomotive 36001 with test train at Oxted
Works diagram of the Leader
The Leader boiler and firebox, showing the offset firehole door position (dotted). Also visible are two of the four thermic siphons.
The Leader being lifted onto its power bogies at Brighton, May 1949. The casing allowed the locomotive to be put through a carriage-washing plant.