Present your case
If there’s a prototype that you think needs to be offered ready-to-run, here’s the place to voice your opinion…
RAIL PHOTOPR
Locomotive: LSWR Adams ‘T3’ 4-4-0 Tender
Gauge: ‘OO’
Proposed
by: Christopher Cawte, Sudbury, Canada
What is it?
The lure of the seaside and fresh sea air of the South Coast was becoming very attractive and accessible to the Victorians of the late 1880s. The London and South Western Railway was becoming hard pressed at this time to provide the required capacity to move ever-increasing numbers of passengers to seaside destinations like Bournemouth, Swanage, Portsmouth and Southsea, to name a few. A more powerful express locomotive was needed. At this time, William Adams was the locomotive superintendent of the LSWR and designed a more powerful version of his successful 4-4-0 locomotives.