B12 Locomotive No.8572 passing Weybourne Windmill & Coastguard Cottages, working the 13.40 service from Sheringham to Holt. North Norfolk Railway. 31 10 2021

This locos last workings for a couple of years, as it will now undergo a heavy overhaul, scheduled to last the next two years.

The carriages are the famous 'Quad-Art' set - Moving commuters in and out of London has long been a problem for the railway companies. On the Great Northern suburban route out of London this was exacerbated by short platforms and steep gradients on the Metropolitan Widened Lines to Moorgate. To overcome these problems required the use of some unusual railway technology.

The answer was articulation. Nigel Gresley, the newly appointed GNR Carriage and Wagon Superintendent (and later LNER Cheif Mechanical Engineer) decided to experiment with carriage articulation where a 4-wheel bogie supported a common twin-coupler between two coach underframes. At the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, Gresley had two key elements of his hallmark carriages – successful articulation and ground breaking coach bogies, following research that eventually led to the ‘Gresley’ bogie.

With a seating capacity of over 600 in an overall length of some 350 feet, the pairs of sets were ideally suited to the limited space available at Moorgate. The minimised weight, in spite of the relatively heavy bogies, and the reduced rolling resistance assisted in rapid acceleration, especially when hauled by the GNR’s powerful N1, and latter N2, locomotives.

Source: www.nnrailway.co.uk/portfolio-items/quad-art-set/

Taken in: UK / England / North Norfolk District / Weybourne (show map)

Taken on: October 31, 2021

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