It looks pretty smart in 'Dude's pics, GJ. It's also a design I'm not familiar with, but obviously came from the time when we were still World leaders in loco design.
As an aside, my Irish G-Grandfather (my Dad's catholic side of the family) worked as a tunnel bricklayer for the NER (the forerunner of the LNER).
He was killed in the Bramhope tunnel in 1891. There's also a monument there to 25 other navvies (nearly all Irish, I'd guess) who lost their lives working on the tunnel.
I wonder if it would be too late to claim compensation
After all, his widow and children certainly never got any.- :
that I know of, or maybe just enough for a consolatory dark ale, and consequent brush-off.
Dear Santa- how about some compo!
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.