A Tangle of Tenders

by Mel Haigh

Education Officer of

The ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’ Locomotive Preservation Trust Ltd.

This series of articles was originally published in the SNGLPT’s journal Chime, the first part appearing in issue 127, Spring 2003. It followed Mel's popular series on A4 identities and liveries, An A4 By Any Other Name, and describes the various types of tenders attached to A4 locomotives and how they were allocated.  You thought that an engine kept the same tender all its life?  Read on!

Part One from Chime 127, Spring 2003  ~  Part Two from Chime 128, Summer 2003  ~  Part Three from Chime 129, Autumn 2003  ~  Part Four ~ final part ~  from Chime 130, Christmas 2003

 

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