Wednesday, April 04, 2007

2P rebuild?


I've had an email enquiry regarding this class of loco. If anyone does have any information please email me and I'll pass it on to the enquirer.
'Has anyone heard of a proposal to build a brand new Midland 2P 4-4-0. With all the excitement surrounding “Tornado”, “Hengist” and GWR “Star”-class, surely the recreation of the missing S&D Class 2P 4-4-0 would be relatively straightforward. I hasten to add that I am not an engineer, but only a nostalgic enthusiast. We have thanks to considerable endeavour over the years, restored examples of S&D 7F, Fowler 4F but no 2P as far as I am aware. There are a number of Standard 4, 5. Stanier black 5 Ivatt 2 etc. So if anyone wants new “authentic” photographs, of a re-born S&D then we need at least one 2P. Excuse the terrible pun, but “2P or not 2P, that is the question!”'

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