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    The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Improved Precedent Class or Renewed Precedent Class is a class of 2-4-0 steam locomotives originally designed...
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    filled in. All were 'renewed' (replaced) by a like number of LNWR Improved Precedent Class between 1887 and 1894. In 1873 ten locomotives of the type were...
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  • Improved Touring, a category of classifications for cars in amateur road racing Improved Orion, an American research rocket LNWR Improved Precedent Class...
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    the same number and name) as Improved Precedent class locomotives. The remaining eight were rebuilt as Improved Precedents in the 1890s; they retained...
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    Dreadnought Class 2-2-2-0 LNWR Improved Precedent Class 2-4-0 LNWR Teutonic Class 2-2-2-0 LNWR Waterloo Class 2-4-0 LNWR 5ft 6in Tank Class 2-4-2T LNWR Greater...
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    the East Coast Main Line). From 1874, the train was hauled by LNWR Improved Precedent Class 2-4-0 locomotives. When 4-4-0 locos became available from 1897...
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  • (surname) Hardwick (appliances), a Maytag brand No 790 Hardwicke, a LNWR Improved Precedent Class speed-record-breaking steam engine during the Race to the North...
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    Railway. One of the latter's types, the Improved Precedent Class Hardwicke famously set outstanding records for the LNWR during the Race to the North in 1895...
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    particular exhibit. Locomotion: visiting exhibits LMS Hughes Crab LNWR Cornwall LSWR T3 class No. 563 Trains portal North East England portal List of British...
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    "Precursor Tank" Class, also entered service. The Precursor Class was essentially a larger version of the LNWR "Improved Precedent" Class, being Whale's...
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  • was achieved in the night from 8th to 9th July 2022. A Rhaetian Railway class ABe 4/16 train made by Stadler Rail reached 163 kph during testing in the...
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    Ready NER Class O NER Green, LNER Black and BR Black Produced exclusively for TMC (The Model Center) DCC Ready LNWR Improved Precedent Class LNWR Black,...
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    The British Rail Class 98 is a Total Operations Processing System (TOPS) classification that has been used to cover all steam locomotives used on the...
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  • London and North Western Railway. The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Locomotive Department was headquartered at Crewe from 1862. The Crewe Works...
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    Class 1911 1917 Notes LNWR Precedent Class 1 3 LNWR Improved Precedent Class 1 1 LNWR Waterloo Class 1 1 LNWR 5ft 6in Tank Class 3 3 LNWR 19in Express...
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    have carried the name Novelty: LNWR Newton Class No. 1682, built May 1868, replaced June 1892; LNWR Improved Precedent Class No. 1682, built June 1892, scrapped...
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    surprise of the experts on that first day the LNWR locomotive to Crewe was the 25-year-old Problem class Waverley 2-2-2 single. Another surprise was that...
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    "Doubly Good News for 2018". LMS Carriage Association. Retrieved 2 June 2021. "LNWR 5000 Chairman's Special Saloon (Later in Royal Train) built 1920". Archived...
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  • for ten engines each. The locomotives were very similar to the LNWR's Precedent Class locomotives. Known as the Ironclads, they replaced the Singles on...
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    Retrieved 7 May 2015. "John Hick Class". London and North Western Railway Society, Passenger Engines of the LNWR. LNWR Society. 1914. Archived from the...
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    injured. On 27 October 1895, an express passenger train, hauled by LNWR Renewed Precedent Class 2-4-0 no. 790 Hardwicke, collided with a freight train due to...
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  • opposition that their parliamentary bill could fail. There was little precedent for approving railways; local landowners were reluctant to have railways...
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  • was a provincial railway with ambitions but no cash, the Midland and the LNWR had the lines to the south and the whip hand. The MS&LR was extremely ambitious...
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  • and Henry locomotive manager. This continued until February 1860 when the LNWR took a new lease. This line ran through Wednesbury and Alexander was elected...
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