Tag: Buleid Leader

#onthisday 25th April 1970 OVS Bulleid died

#onthisday 25th April 1970 Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid died, aged 87. He was the Southern Railway Chief Mechanical Engineer between 1937 and nationalisation in 1948. He is best celebrated for the development, under wartime conditions, of his Merchant Navy Pacifics which incorporated a host of novel ideas including the enclosed oil bath for the novel … Continue reading #onthisday 25th April 1970 OVS Bulleid died

Talking Stock #8 Is it a diesel? Is it steam?..It’s a Bulleid Leader

One item of my rolling stock that raises the most questions when I exhibit Fisherton Sarum, and is also one of the most common search terms that readers of this blog have used to get here, is in connection with the Bulleid Leader.  I will not go in to the whys and wherefores of the … Continue reading Talking Stock #8 Is it a diesel? Is it steam?..It’s a Bulleid Leader