Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Many people have asked me why I rarely take a look at tank engines for Those Great Locomotives. The history behind one of J.G. Robinson's and even the entirety of the Great Central Railway's most graceful locomotives, the 9Ns (later classified as A5s by the LNER) might tell you why...
SOURCES AND CREDIT
Photograph of an LNER A5 (thumbnail) by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - flickr.com/photos/twm_news/26807444755/, No restrictions, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53187913
Illustration of Mottram Viaduct on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway by Richard Principal Leitch - flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14777802204/Source book page: archive.org/stream/illustratedlondov39lond/illustratedlondov39lond#page/n217/mode/1up, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43160542
Map of the MLS by Afterbrunel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84349942
Postcard of a Lancashire & Yorkshire Class 8 by Unknown author - Here, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75620156
Portrait of Edward Watkin by Augustus Henry Fox - collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?wm=1&kv=115302, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30746305
Postcard of Gloucester Eastgate station by Unknown contract photographer emplyed by postcard publisher - Widely distributed images dating from 1895 to 1905, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=117663861
Photograph of Thompson L1 2-6-4 by Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15001943
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Outro music: Kevin MacLeod - Fiddles McGinty
(Fiddles McGinty by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400051
Artist: incompetech.com )
Channel icon by Dean Walker - twitter.com/lookitstrainart
Many people have asked me why I rarely take a look at tank engines for Those Great Locomotives. The history behind one of J.G. Robinson's and even the entirety of the Great Central Railway's most graceful locomotives, the 9Ns (later classified as A5s by the LNER) might tell you why...
SOURCES AND CREDIT
Photograph of an LNER A5 (thumbnail) by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - flickr.com/photos/twm_news/26807444755/, No restrictions, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53187913
Illustration of Mottram Viaduct on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway by Richard Principal Leitch - flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14777802204/Source book page: archive.org/stream/illustratedlondov39lond/illustratedlondov39lond#page/n217/mode/1up, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43160542
Map of the MLS by Afterbrunel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84349942
Postcard of a Lancashire & Yorkshire Class 8 by Unknown author - Here, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75620156
Portrait of Edward Watkin by Augustus Henry Fox - collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?wm=1&kv=115302, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30746305
Postcard of Gloucester Eastgate station by Unknown contract photographer emplyed by postcard publisher - Widely distributed images dating from 1895 to 1905, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=117663861
Photograph of Thompson L1 2-6-4 by Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15001943
LINKS
Discord server - discord.gg/PtekEPJ
Twitter - twitter.com/TeaWithCaramel1
Outro music: Kevin MacLeod - Fiddles McGinty
(Fiddles McGinty by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400051
Artist: incompetech.com )
Channel icon by Dean Walker - twitter.com/lookitstrainart
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Q&A Tweet - https://twitter.com/TeaWithCaramel1/status/1594781352708440064
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LINKS
Discord server - https://discord.gg/PtekEPJ
Twitter - https://twitter.com/TeaWithCaramel1
Outro music: Kevin MacLeod - Fiddles McGinty
(Fiddles McGinty by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400051
Artist: http://incompetech.com/ )
Channel icon by - https://twitter.com/lookitstrainart
Pictureframe artwork by @RoseAffogato - https://twitter.com/RoseAffogato")
