The price of our pleasures!

Plus there is no justification for thinking PO offset corridors for security reasons :-)

Cheers, Simon

Congratulations on a very decent piece of research. Guy

Very true in 1848-1900. However, there were over 120 years of PO vehicles, a period during which someone, somewhere in the PO might have had a rethink.

Regards, Greg.P.

Hornby's R4155 LMS TPO (model of a prototype dating from 1931) has central corridor connections. Is this correct?

Were TPOs (with centre connections) used with LNER corridor tenders? If so, were loco crews allowed to pass through?

Thanks, the book was a lucky find at a very good price GBP6 and filled a hole in my modest library, am looking for an equivalent on ordinary coaches next.

Cheers, Simon

Would that be on the lines of :- Manager - Why dont we offset gangways on TPO carraiges to make them more secure from passengers ? Worker - We do offset gangways on TPO's. Manager - Why ? Worker - Dunno (and not bothered), praps cos we've done it that way for the last 100 years. Manager - Right then will write article for internal magazine stating security to be the reason.

:-)

Cheers, Simon

No I'm sorry, all LMS TPO's were offset corridor connections.

Sorry, dont have much info on LNER practices. There are several photos of LNER TPO's built around 1930 that lasted well into 1960's in a Backtrack article by Phillip Mallard (Nov 1994). All have offset connections. You might start by checking if there were any TPO's on the LNER service with corridor tenders ?

Cheers, Simon

LOL!

Regards, Greg.P.

I believe that TPOs did actually stop enroute to Scotland from London so the need would not arise. The corridor tenders were built with non stop runs in mind and the need to change crews on the run.

Peter A