Midland Railway 4-4-0 No. 1000
Barrow Hill, Derbyshire, UK 		Location: Barrow Hill Railway Centre
Status: Display
Posted: May 23, 2025 @ 13:05:57 by Russell Newman
The former Midland Railway Compound 4-4-0 No. 1000, courtesy of National Railway Museum will be taking part on display with many other locomotives from around the UK at the Greatest Gathering at Litchurch Lane works in Derby as part of the Railway 200 celebrations from the 1st to 3rd of August 2025. To mark 200 years of opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and 200 years of the modern railway we all know and use today. This will be a homing for the locomotive as No. 1000 was built at Derby in 1902 and this will be the first time that it has return to the former Midland Railway works at Derby in many years.
Posted: May 9, 2003 @ 10:05:40 by Steve Frost
The UK never really took to the compound - not like the Europeans did. There were some experimental locos and some unusual production ones; and many different systems were used, and, mainly rebuilt as simples. But not this one. The Midland Railway produced these 3 cylinder compounds early in the 20th century.

They were technically interesting, with a single high pressure cylinder between the frames and two low pressure cylinders outside. And there were 3 sets of valve gear between the frames, too. Like most compounds, they were started as simples, moving to compound operation later. This was arranged through the regulator, where a small opening made it operate as a simple, and larger openings switched it to compound. This could mean that sometimes you used less steam at a wide throttle opening than at a smaller one!

But the main thing is that the LMS took this design as their standard express loco in the 1920's, making them the largest, and most successful class of compounds built in the UK.

Enough of this stuff: it is a beautiful engine. Elegant, balanced appearance, no fussy junk hanging around the boiler, and that lovely Midland Lake livery that suits it so well. The photo shows this perfectly. It was taken in 1975 at the Stockton and Darlington 150 celebrations, in steam. Currently its on display at Barrow Hill engine shed. Go and see it!