#and a bunch of exile Caley engines

[thesudrianchronicles]

Ask & you shall receive! @mean-scarlet-deceiver

"The real Sou'West, the Sou'West that we knew, had gone years before. James Manson, locomotive superintendent, had retired in 1912. Since then we had one successor who swept all G&SW engines aside as unworthy and another who meddled incompetently with these engines until hardly a one was working at former full strength. I know that they looked well - never had G&SW engines been so artistically painted, but paint does not help when you have to keep time on the Pullman, or climb Glendounce bank. Yes, those final years of the G&SW had not been happy ones. Sick at heart with the Whitelegg regime, I turned with a high hope to this great new idea, this 'Grouping', which promised us light in our darkness."

- Legends of the Glasgow & South Western Railway in LMS days by David L. Smith

#real true railway stuff #the glasgow and south western #Once again #Mr. Smith having high hopes for the G&SWR fleet on day 1 of the grouping #Not knowing that about 80% of them will be gone in the next 9 years #And that you'll get a small trickle of Compounds 2Ps & other locos I've yet to see #and a bunch of exile Caley engines #*shudders* the horrors #Can safely say I'm enjoying this lovely book #currently on the chapter with Compounds #David l. Smith #Mr. Whitelegg is only mentioned twice in this book apparently #Amazing isn't it? #Glasgow & South Western Engines