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[Scalyback]

The driver in the top vid gave Tornado a peep-peep on the steam whistle.



There must be some reason that they called that poor engine 'ugly'. I think it is a rather neat Hunslett austerity tank loco and not ugly at all!

[Adrian]

Ah but [anorak] it's NOT an austerity/J94 by Hunslet of Leeds, it's the bastard offspring of the Austerity and the old Manning Wardle 16" design with the raised firebox by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn's in Geordieland. They inherited the MW design via Kitson's, another Yorshire locomotive builder. These hybrids were actually known as Uglies back in the day.



The classic austerities were built by a number of builders besides Hunslet, RSH were one of them. Here's one of theirs to the Hunslet design:



https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 664%29.jpg



Here's the other side of the family doing some iron ore quarry duty...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/31514768@N05/3805218688 [/anorak]



Hope this helps.



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[Scalyback]

Nice and detailed with stuff I didn't know.

I thought there would actually be a story behind the name, but if it were my loco, I would rename it. It's beautiful and deserves better.