The Railway Magazine

FROM THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVES

100 YEARS AGO JUNE 1919

THE Great Western Railway has recently completed 2-8-0 No. 4700, the first eight-coupled engine designed expressly for mixed-traffic duties, certainly in the United Kingdom and probably in world practice. The design is developed from the highly successful 2-6-0 mixed-traffic engines with 5ft 8in coupled wheels, but has a large boiler 

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