Many people have asked me why I rarely take a look at tank engines for Those Great Locomotives. The history behind one of J.G. Robinson's and even the entirety of the Great Central Railway's most graceful locomotives, the 9Ns (later classified as A5s by the LNER) might tell you why...

SOURCES AND CREDIT

Photograph of an LNER A5 (thumbnail) by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums https://www.flickr.com/photos/twm_new..., No restrictions, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Illustration of Mottram Viaduct on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway by Richard Principal Leitch https://www.flickr.com/photos/interne... book page: https://archive.org/stream/illustrate..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Map of the MLS by Afterbrunel Own work, CC BYSA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Postcard of a Lancashire & Yorkshire Class 8 by Unknown author Here, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Portrait of Edward Watkin by Augustus Henry Fox http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/g..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Postcard of Gloucester Eastgate station by Unknown contract photographer emplyed by postcard publisher Widely distributed images dating from 1895 to 1905, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Photograph of Thompson L1 264 by Ben Brooksbank, CC BYSA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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Outro music: Kevin MacLeod Fiddles McGinty
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