Therefore in this and all succeeding chapters, the 1886 classification is used when referring to specific locomotives. If it was confusing then, it is more so for the reader of history. By then there were so many that nearly every letter of the alphabet was needed to give each a class. Passenger engines were given even numbers and goods engines odd numbers, but no means of classifying the various designs was devised until 1886. During Higinbotham’s tenure the number of different locomotive designs would multiply. Ten more locomotives were on order to yet another design.
Thomas Higinbotham took over as Engineer-in-Chief in May 1860 and by the end of that year he had charge of a railway of 68 route miles, and 24 locomotives of no less than seven distinct designs. The foreign designs were copied for local manufacture. In the ensuing turmoil ten new locomotive designs appeared in as many years, together with the rebuilding of three older types. To the protectionists, this hub of manufacturing potential was a plum waiting to be plundered! Having snatched the Locomotive Branch from Thomas Higinbotham’s domain they proceeded to meddle in its management throughout the Seventies and early Eighties. The Locomotive Branch managed all the locomotives and rolling stock, and the Williamstown workshops. The radicals needed control of the railways to achieve both these objectives. Protectionists were bent on forcing local manufacture onto the railways, and selectors were pushing for cheap railways that would hasten the spread of wheat farming. The other was to wrest crown land from squatters and turn their sheep runs into farms. Protection of colonial manufacturing was one of the twin planks in the radical liberal platform. Large 8.5x11 pages that fit easily into a standard 8.LIGHT LINES, LOCOMOTIVES AND PROTECTION 1870-1880 Single sided pages that are great for framing
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