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Close up showing LNWR 2-2-2-0 No 410 'City of Liverpool', one of Webb's 'Dreadnought' class. The LNWR Dreadnought class was a class of forty passenger three-cylinder compound 2-2-2-0 locomotives designed by FW Webb for the L&NWR, and by Crewe Works between 1884 and 1888. The L&NWR were also commissioned the Beyer, Peacock and Company to construct an additional locomotive of the same design for the Pennsylvania Railroad. They were a development of Webb's Experiment class; they had larger boilers and smaller driving wheels, and while the Joy valve gear for the HP and LP cylinders could still be independently adjusted, it was now also possible to reverse both sets simultaneously. The inside valve gear was subsequently amended to the loose or slip-eccentric system, thus giving automatic reversal. When George Whale become CME of the LNWR in 1903, he started to eliminate Webb's over-complicated duplex compound locomotives which resulted in the class being scrapped between December 1903 and July 1905, replaced by Whale's own Experiment class. Prototype information courtesy of LNWR Society.
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