Voulcan Foundry brochure from c1910 has a 6-page introduction to VF balanced compounds giving a positive view of their single 4-cyl compound 4-4-2 built to GNR (No. 1300, built in 1905). The illustrated section shows among others balanced compound delivered to BAGS (Buenos Aires Great Southern, 4-6-0) and the GNR 1300.
The excellent "Locomotives of the L.N.E.R.", Part 3A, (pub. 1979) from the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society gives a less flattering image of the GNR 1300, as some extracts illustrate. This locomotive was rebuilt into a 2-cyl simple in 1917 and was withdrawn in 1924.
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