page_title: BR Caprotti Black Fives
hierarchical_section_title: BR Caprotti Black Fives
caption_attribution_description: English: Westbound express entering Manchester Victoria/Exchange, with train-spotters. View eastward from the east end of the long through platform (Nos. 11/3) at Manchester Victoria/Exchange: ex-L&amp;Y main lines, up the bank towards Miles Platting and Yorkshire. On the left is Victoria East Box, which controlled the junction with the Manchester Loop to Cheetham Hill Junction and Thorpes Bridge Junction. It was perhaps the busiest Summer Saturday ever (3 September 1960), because London Road Station was in the throws of major rebuilding to the new Piccadilly Station and most express to/from the South and London were being diverted from there via Ardwick Junction, Philips Park and Oldham Road Junction. The train approaching (W426) is probably one of these - admired by a bevvy of spotters: the locomotive is Stanier/Ivatt 5MT 4-6-0 No. 44751 (built 3/48 and fitted with Caprotti valve gear and roller-bearings, withdrawn 10/64). I was there for 2½ hours, during which no less than 36 expresses (26 with Stanier Black 5s) came past, plus empty stock, light engines etc. (I also recorded the great cacophony of sound).
context_page_description: British Railways built twenty locomotives of the LMS Stanier Black Five type, fitted with Caprotti valve gear, in 1948; the BR Caprotti Black Fives. These were numbered 44738-57, 44686 and 44687. The Black Fives had been fitted with Walschaerts valve gear as standard. In 1947, as part of an experimental programme by George Ivatt to try to improve the already good design, 4767 was built with Stephenson link motion. The Caprotti-fitted Black Fives were part of the same programme.
context_section_description: British Railways built twenty locomotives of the LMS Stanier Black Five type, fitted with Caprotti valve gear, in 1948; the BR Caprotti Black Fives. These were numbered 44738-57, 44686 and 44687. The Black Fives had been fitted with Walschaerts valve gear as standard. In 1947, as part of an experimental programme by George Ivatt to try to improve the already good design, (4)4767 was built with Stephenson link motion. The Caprotti-fitted Black Fives were part of the same programme.
caption: 44751 at Manchester Victoria in 1960
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