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In 1940, there was a war on, and the Southern Railway was looking into producing a new high speed locomotive for commuter services into London??!??<\/p>\n
It probably made sense at the time. So the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway, O. V. S. Bulleid, designed a large pacific locomotive capable of hauling the large commuter trains at 100mph.<\/p>\n
This was the Merchant Navy Class, and left the shops in 1941. Bulleid decided to \u2018streamline\u2019 the locomotives, but he didn\u2019t like that word so it became known as
\nAir Smoothed Casing, and in short looked like a can of Spam.<\/p>\n
As time passed, Bulleid was made aware that these engines were just\u00a0absolute units\u00a0and couldn\u2019t run on the whole network. In 1945, this was resolved by the appearance of the West Country and Battle of Britain class, which were basically identical to the Merchant Navys, but a bit lighter.<\/p>\n
Then BR took over, realised the Air Smoothed casing and chain valve gear was bunkum, and rebuilt the engines (they kinda looked like small Britannias).<\/p>\n
Then like 70 years later some jumped up British guy in his pyjamas released this mod.<\/p>\n
This mod contains
\nSR Merchant Navy Class \u2014 (Old Casing) \u2013 (SR Green)
\nSR Merchant Navy Class \u2014 (Old casing) \u2013 (Golden Arrow)
\nSR West Country Class \u2014 (SR Green)
\nSR West Country Class \u2014 (Golden Arrow)
\nSR Battle of Britain Class \u2014 (Transitional Green)
\nBR Battle of Britain Class \u2014 (BR Green)
\nBR West Country Class \u2014 (Rebuilt) \u2013 (BR Green)
\nBR Merchant Navy Class \u2014 (New Casing) \u2013 (BR Blue)
\nBR Merchant Navy Class \u2014 (Rebuilt) \u2013 (BR Blue)<\/p>\n
Authors: SteveM4<\/p>\n
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