Originally Posted by
ACW599
since the only real railway CMEs were Gresley and Stanier, we don't talk about Bulleid in polite society.
RA Riddles did his fair share. In addition to the WD 2-8-0s and the 2-10-0s, he oversaw the postwar standardisation and production of much more efficient and more powerful machines in great numbers.
I can't help liken his standard designs to the likes of the Iroquois, S-61 etc, which were made in their thousands because of their relative simplicity and ability to get the task done. In contrast Bulleid's "streamlined" classes used unproven technology, were complex to maintain and suffered dreadful reliability problems. Sounds eerily familiar to a lot of military kit...