The locomotives named explicitly to annoy people - GWR Earl 'Dukedogs'

In this video, we take a look at the GWR Earl class of locomotives, who were given the classification of "Earls" to annoy aristocrats

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[Theonlyoneandlonely]

"they say that I'm old fashioned, but I don't care"

-Edward

[darkchaotixproductions]

*Charles Collett, a locomotive designer Madlad*

[lizzyobrien]

Despite their comical appearance, I’ve seen a few of their time sheets and the logs of the runs they did. These things were no joke. Powerful (for their size), tough, and light makes for a formidable combination, who would’ve thought?

[MrJoeyWheeler]

It's always a lovely story when you have a class that survived into the 60s.

Then equally mind-boggling if you have one that survived into the 60s and then went extinct.

[cmc]

You know what this reminds me of, "Bongo"

[PitofTrogness]

LNER aristocrats: let us present to you our newest class of express engines, the A4!
*A4 pulls into the station impressively*
GWR aristocrats: let us show you OUR newest engine, the Earl class!
*Earl trundles into the station like some sort of Great Western Edward*
GWR aristocrats: ...
LNER aristocrats: *BRUH*
Charles Collett: laughing his ass off in the background

[nicholasfitzsimmons]

Am I the only person who thinks they actually look really nice?

[fishpop]

So the Duke class had worn out parts and the Bulldog class was being retired so parts of the latter were used to upgrade the former? That's one way to utilize the resources at hand.

[scanida]

American trolling: Haha, we covered your house in toilet paper!
German trolling: **literally blows up house**
British trolling:

[johndavies]

As a child of about 8 or 9 I remember seeing one of the last two surviving Dukedogs, sitting on the centre road at the old Aberystwyth station. They've fascinated me ever since. About twenty minutes later I met one of the Vale of Rheidol engines - having never seen an outside framed engine (I grew up beside the Trent Valley main line) I was profoundly puzzled as to why neither engine had any So there is a 50/50 chance that the engine I saw is the preserved example.

[HSMiyamoto]

The GWR directors were probably less unhappy than you might think, because the Great Depression was on, and Collet wrung new life out of old parts. Rather the way the Great Northern Railway (U.S.A.) converted old Mallet locos into the heaviest 2-8-2 locomotives ever built, the Class O-8, also in the 1930s. Hard times call for desperate measures.

[PennsyPappas]

Ya gotta love a good under "dog" story from time to time. Im sure the Chief Engineer there was fed up with all of the "Bull" he had to put with at work. Luckily he didnt end up "duking" it out with anybody over it.

Okay ill stop now.

[User-O]

I'd have no gripe if one of those locos were named after me - they're beautiful.

[carribob]

The one Dukedog that was preserved (9017 Earl Of Berkeley) uses the frames of Bulldog 4-4-0 no 3425 and the boiler of Duke 4-4-0 no 3282 Chepstow Castle.

[stationmasterkuma]

Beginning: engineer tf2 laughs at prince george

[garryferrington]

Well, they did know how to save money. And they were evidently good engines. Pretty funny way to get one's own back at the directors.

[johnjephcote]

I remember them going out of service but I never managed to see one in BR use. I was too young to see the last of the Bird class Bulldogs. It had never occurred to me that there was any intent to have 'un petit rire' at the directors...I'm so innocent and I knew that loco naming was very quirky to the point of insensitiveness anyway. Take Bongo and Pretty Polly for a start and the GWR once had an absorbed loco carrying the name 'Terrible'.

[jacksonclark]

Kinda reminds me of the sileightie. Back in the 90s in Japan drifting/street racing was very popular and a popular choice was the Nissan 180sx. However if said owner of 180sx were to somehow damage the front end he would be left with a couple of choices of how to repair it. They could buy the 180sx front end but the 180sx happened to share the same chassis as the S13 silva which happened to be cheaper. Due to this it wasn't uncommon to see a 180sx with a S13 front end and such examples of these cars were nicknamed sileightie's a combination of the names Silvia and 180sx.

[krei_dash_zed]

him: explains about the names of random trains

the music: *undertale intensifies*

[Bluedino]

I dunno how appreciated rws/Thomas comments are around here, but man I wonder if this means Duke being a "bulldog" was awdry using Linda's leap to make a pun, after ALREADY naming Duke because of a story that was based on the name of the original dukes