Capulet

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**Capulet** is a large heavy goods locomotive that works on the Gladsville line. He came to work on the line from the North Eastern Region after Sharon was re-allocated. He is one of the largest locomotives owned by the Moorland Steam Railway.

## Bio

Capulet was built by the famed LNER Doncaster Works under the design of Herbert Nigel Gresley for heavy goods traffic on the LNER system. He found out that his design was too heavy for the strict Scottish loading gauge (leading to his hatred towards Scottish goods locomotives like Maude). Capulet spend most of his life until 1962 in the North East of England. In 1962, he was re-allocated from his home shed of Doncaster to Northampsmith as the line's main heavy good locomotive, since Sharon was re-allocated to the North Eastern Region. He had a short working life due to the Beeching Axe preparing to close down the line he was now allocated to.

Capulet became one the of the first five steam locomotives of the Moorland Steam Railway when the line was official saved from the Beeching Axe that same year and he began his preserved life working goods trains for the towns the line served. By the time his boiler ticket expired in 1967, Capulet was overhauled by Crewe works just to get him back into service on the line, and still got to handle freight trains, albeit much lighter than what he use to haul than his youthful years. Following the opening of the Dentin extension in 1973, Capulet (along with fellow ex-LNER heavy freight locomotive Raven) handled most of the goods traffic to the town and even transferred goods to the smaller Dentin Moor Narrow Gauge Railway (DMNGR) as under contract.

## Appearances

### The Series 1960s

* Veteran Rescue of Swindon
* Wartime Returns
* The Audit Part 1
* The Audit Part 2

### The Series 1990s

* A Scotsman (not the Scotsman)

* Bridge over the Tay
* Cat is Off the Menu

### Specials

* The Midlander
* Western Super Pannier
* The Western Armstrong
* Brothers to the End

## Personality

Capulet is a hard-working engine who cares for the engines around him (meaning he's a "gentle giant").

## Livery

Until the 1980s, Capulet is painted in BR Unlined Black with Late Crests.

After the 1980s, Capulet is painted in LNER Post-WWI Unlined Black with Gill Sans lettering.

## Basis or real locomotive

   Capulet is based on the real locomotive. It was one of 67 O2s constructed by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and LNER built at Doncaster and the North British Locomotive Company (NBL) between 1918 to mid-WWII for heavy freight work across the Eastern and North Eastern areas of the LNER network. There were four subclasses varying in detail coming from introduction. The class was replaced by more modern diesel-electrics in the 1960s and all were scrapped. They were commonly known as "Tangoes" due to the sideways movement they made and after a type of dance that was popular in the 1920s.

BR No. 63952 was built at Doncaster in 1932 as an O2/3 class and was withdrawn from Doncaster in 1961, being scrapped later that year.

## Trivia

Capulet is named after one of the rival families in the William Shakespeare play 'Romeo and Juliet'. This explains for speaking Shakespearean language.

* Capulet being a large and powerful locomotive could also refer to the power the Capulets had, which was similar to that of the "rival" Montague family in the same play.

Capulet is one of the line's most powerful locomotives (being a 2-8-0, like Sharon). The exceptions can be Raven, who is an older 0-8-0 and Argus, a fellow 2-8-0 with Great Central origins.

Capulet uses modified sounds from an LNER Thompson B1 4-6-0 (same class as Stanford), modified to suit the driving wheel diameter and the number of cylinders (B1s have 2 cylinders while O2s have 3).

   Capulet's models are standard Heljan OO gauge models. His main model is unchanged while his LNER one is renumbered.

* His model was used for an unnamed cameo at the beginning of the film.
* For cab interior shots, Capulet's cab is done with a Thompson B1 4-6-0 on Train Simulator as a "stand-in" since no Gresley O2 is available in the game yet.

Capulet plays 'Ilkley Moor Bah Tat' on his whistle when he steams towards Dentin Moor. This was a custom recording since there is no footage of steam locomotives blowing this tune.

Like Australia, Hood, Stovold and Westminster, Capulet has three cylinders but is powered by Gresley conjunction valve gear, not Walschaerts.

Strangely, Capulet doesn't remember his pre-1946 LNER number. This came from the fact that finding the pre-1946 number of O2/3 No. 3952 became difficult so the post-1946 to Nationalisation number was easier to find.

Capulet's personality doesn't appear to be based on any other fictional character. Shane Sowter says that, "Capulet's personality came out from the blue."

Capulet doesn't prefer to chose his favourite form of train, since he believes in, "When the orders are given that the depot, you do them and never fuss about it. A job is a job."

Capulet is the first ex-LNER locomotive preserved by the MSR (acquired: 1962).

* Jazza, Stanford and Raven arrived the same decade but Capulet is one the first five locomotives that started the MSR in 1962.