Re: Preserved O4 and Q6 - update please
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 4:20 pm
"Quite rightly so."
Given the current condition of the locomotive with LNER buffers, low dome set further back on the Dia. 50A boiler and lack of the safety valve cover it would be historically incorrect to to paint it in anything other than LNER or British Railways black!
When it entered service in early December 1918 it is most likely to have received the post March 1917 livery which, following an instruction, was for all goods and mineral locomotives to be painted black, without lining or heraldry. It would also have had a small 9 in by 5 in cast iron number plate on the cab side together with the number being painted in large yellow, shaded red, figures between the letters 'N' and 'E' (with stops) on the tender side. The large cast brass number plate fitted when the locomotive was previously painted in North Eastern livery was not correct as all such plates were removed from goods, mineral and shunting engines in 1917.
It would be nice to see the T2 cosmetically restored to something like its as built condition by replacing the LNER buffers and dome and adding the low safety valve cover and cast iron number plates so that NER livery could be justified but will the NELPG go to these lengths?
Tom.
Given the current condition of the locomotive with LNER buffers, low dome set further back on the Dia. 50A boiler and lack of the safety valve cover it would be historically incorrect to to paint it in anything other than LNER or British Railways black!
When it entered service in early December 1918 it is most likely to have received the post March 1917 livery which, following an instruction, was for all goods and mineral locomotives to be painted black, without lining or heraldry. It would also have had a small 9 in by 5 in cast iron number plate on the cab side together with the number being painted in large yellow, shaded red, figures between the letters 'N' and 'E' (with stops) on the tender side. The large cast brass number plate fitted when the locomotive was previously painted in North Eastern livery was not correct as all such plates were removed from goods, mineral and shunting engines in 1917.
It would be nice to see the T2 cosmetically restored to something like its as built condition by replacing the LNER buffers and dome and adding the low safety valve cover and cast iron number plates so that NER livery could be justified but will the NELPG go to these lengths?
Tom.