User:Tudorminstrel

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Tudor Minstrel was a thoroughbred race horse foaled in 1944. With well known parentage it became Britain's top 2-year old colt in 1946 and won the 2000 Guineas, with Sir Gordon Richards as jockey as a 3-year old. It failed to win The Derby it was said due to the extra distance involved but that still made it good enough to be one of the horses chosen to have its name confered on a steam locomotive. The L.N.E.R. 4-6-2 Class A2, designed by A.H. Peppercorn, were given names of race horses, like the Gresley A3 class before them and No. 528 was allocated "Tudor Minstrel". It was not, however, outshopped from Doncaster Plant until British Railways days and carried the number 60528.

A bit more of me...... Born and bred in the former West Riding of Yorkshire in a coal mining and steel producing community, joining the staff of a Sheffield steelmakers and engineers after leaving school. Having been made redundant three times as the Sheffield steel industry disappeared beneath my feet I kept working and I am now a well-established freelance tour manager working in many countries in Europe.

I have been interested in railways from my early teens and I have developed a strong historical base and a small collection of items relating to the subject which I have made available to locally based authors over the years.

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Creator of

These are articles I have profoundly modified, edited from embryonic stub status or simply created a new entry:

Local Industrial interest:

British Railway Interest:

Irish Railway Interest: Steam:

  • BNCR Class A1
  • CLR Class DN2
  • DNGR Locomotives
  • GSWRI Class J30
  • MGWR Class D16
  • MGWR Class J5
  • NCC Class U2
  • NCC Class Y
  • SLNCR Lough Class
  • SSR Class DN4
  • SSR Class DN5
  • TCR Class K5
  • TCR Class L6
  • TDR Class KN1
  • TDR Class KN2
  • TDR Class PN2

Diesel:

Swiss Railway Interest

  • Chemin de fer Aigle-Ollon-Monthey
  • Chemin de fer
    Aigle-Ollon-Monthey-Champéry
  • Chemin de fer Bex-Villars-Bretaye
  • Chemin de fer Bière-Apples-Morges
  • Chemin de fer du Jura (English)
  • Chemin de fer Monthey-Champéry-Morgins
  • Chemin de fer de Montreux-Glion-Rochers-de-Naye
  • Chemin de fer Montreux-Glion
  • Chemin de fer funiculaire Territet-Glion
  • Métro Lausanne-Ouchy
  • Chemin de fer
    Nyon-St-Cergue-Morez
  • Rhône Express Regional
  • Schynige Platte Bahn
  • Transports publics Fribourgeois
  • Transports Publics du Chablais

Canal Interest:

Road Transport:


Contributor to:

These are articles to which I have substantially contributed: