Taken at Barrow Hill Round House near Chesterfield, Derbyshire last weekend.

V1 & V2

The Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway displayed their 15 inch guage locomotive No. 7 Typhoon on a short section of track. These locomotives were designed by Henry Greenly and are based on a Gresley pacific, although Typhoon was altered to look like a Peppercorn A1. For the occasion they had painted 60164 on the sides of her cab, one number up from the new A1 60163 Tornado

V3 & V4
This locomotive is the famous gas turbine number 18000, which was ordered by the Great Western Railway in 1940 from the Swiss engineering firm, Brown, Boverie & Cie. However, because of the war it wasn't built until 1949 and spent it's working life until 1960 on the western Region of British Railways. It had an A1A-A1A wheel arrangement with traction motors powered from a generator driven by the turbine. When I saw this locomoitve in the early 1950's it was painted black and silver. In 1964, she was used for wheel and rail interaction tests conducted from Vienna Arsenal by the Union Internationale Chemin de Fer (International Union Of Railways) who's headquarters are in Utrecht in the Netherlands. At the end of these tests she was preserved and displayed at Vienna Arsenal. She has since returned to the UK and is kept at Barrow Hill Roundhouse.

Normally she is inside the shed, but Barrow Hill parked her outside at the head of a train of BR Mk1 Carriages, making a great picture.

Spike.

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