I watched last night on catch-up a programme from C4 last Saturday evening 'Britains Railway Empire in colour' which among other things included a short early ciné film that had been rather well colourised - I assume for this programme - of a Webb 2-4-0 (actually probably technically a 2-2-2-0) compound pulling an express and taking up water at speed.
For ciné, it must have been made very early as when Whale took over from Webb in 1903, one of his first jobs was to churn out Precursor 4-4-0s to replace Webb compounds. The 2-4-0s had, I think, all gone by the end of 1905. His 4-4-0 compounds lasted a bit longer and some were eventually rebuilt as simples, but the one in the film was not one of those.
My wife wanted to watch something on another channel ... I may see if I can catch it on my computer. Of course Webb's Jumbos lasted much longer. It's sad that the last three "mainline" passenger locos all got scrapped c.1945.
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https://pendonmuseum.com/about/madder-valley-railway
Worth a visit!
A landmark in railway modelling, nevertheless.
For ciné, it must have been made very early as when Whale took over from Webb in 1903, one of his first jobs was to churn out Precursor 4-4-0s to replace Webb compounds. The 2-4-0s had, I think, all gone by the end of 1905. His 4-4-0 compounds lasted a bit longer and some were eventually rebuilt as simples, but the one in the film was not one of those.
Has anyone else seen it?