page_title: GNR Class C1 (large boiler)
section_title: Later years
hierarchical_section_title: GNR Class C1 (large boiler) / Later years
caption_attribution_description: English: LNER Ivatt Atlantic at Finsbury Park. View northward, towards Hitchin and the North; ex-Great Northern ECML. Ex-GN Ivatt Atlantic C1 4-4-2 No. 2825 on the 13.49 stopping train from Cambridge stands on the Seven Sisters Road Bridge at Finsbury Park. Having served as principal express locomotives on the GNR in the first two decades of the 20th Century, these capable engines were 'worked to the death' on secondary services until just after the Second World War, when they were supplanted by the new B1 4-6-0's. This is one of the survivors, No. 2825. [This is also one of my very first successful photographs, in 1946].
context_page_description: The Great Northern Railway Class C1 is a type of 4-4-2 steam locomotive. One, ex GNR 251, later LNER 2800, survives in preservation.
context_section_description: They were eventually superseded on the heaviest trains by Gresley A1 Pacifics in the early 1920s.  They continued to haul lighter expresses up until 1950, although this did include the Harrogate Pullman for a period during the 1920s and 1930s.  They were often called upon to take over trains from failed Pacifics and put up some remarkable performances with loads far in excess of those they were designed to haul.  One once took over the Flying Scotsman from a failed A3 at Peterborough and not only made up time but arrived early.
caption: No. 2825 on a stopping train at Seven Sisters, 1946
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