Pates, as we called the Patriot Class, came in two sizes.
Un-rebuilt and rebuilt were very different engines to look at, yet the class as
a whole was made up of a good mixture of both. Un-rebuilt locos seemed very old
and chunky and some had already been withdrawn from service by the time of my
1962 combined volume. Rebuilt versions, with their tapered boilers and curved
windshields, looked more like the Royal Scots.
John Dyer photographed both types - No. 45541 Duke of
Sutherland was on Birkenhead sheds in April 1961 and No. 45531 Sir Frederick Harrison
was seen at Stockport Edgeley sheds in August of the following year.
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