Trains on the demanding line between Sydney and
Albury.
Designed and built in Australia, the boasted an impressive 20 tonnes
and up to 2500 horsepower. The first fine locomotives were constructed...
Having been rebuilt with a conventional boiler and A4 style streamlining
in 1937, the W1 ‘Hush-Hush’ continued to serve with LNER and later
British Railways. Under BR the locomotive was renumbered...
Up to the outbreak of war in 1939, and during the war years, 10000 worked mainly on Kings Cross main line duties and with its power and smooth riding it was a popular engine with the LNER's drivers, t...