[modeleng] Re: City of Truro
- From: peter.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:14:56 +0100
Roger asked:
>Anyone know why the loco was named after our county town (it might
>not have been the county town one hundred years ago, as Bodmin used to
>be the county town)?
That's because it was one of the City class. As I understand it, all cities
have a cathedral, but not every place with a cathedral is city e.g
Chelmsford. So Bodmin wouldn't have counted. I've a feeling that there was
a Bodmin anyway, a 4-4-0, of the Badminton class.
There was a County of Cornwall: that was a Churchward County, an outside
cylindered 4-4-0, as opposed to the later hawksworth 4-6-0 County Class.
the Churchward ones were supposedly produced for the West to North line via
the Severn tunnel, Abergavenny and Hereford and Shewsbury: part of this
line was joint with the LNW and they objected to the weight of the
Chruchward 4-6-0s. Churchward wasn't going to be told what to do by the
LNW, so the story goes, and built the Counties. The short wheelbase and
largish outside cylinders meant they were very rough riders.
Peter Chadwick
Swindon
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