I showed LNER and BR(E) Pullmans with Clive in separate chapters and there are updates on the w/s for the "Queen of Scots" and the "West Riding/Yorkshire Pullman" which ran through Yorkshire (see links below). This is for two of the others in the early days.
The Harrogate Pullman LNER 1923-27
The Harrogate Pullman was quite short lived because it started in 1923 with 6 wooden cars and in 1928 was rerouted and modernised with new, steel cars to become the "Queen of Scots" - which is covered under Leeds and the West Riding (see links below). This picture is interesting because it's a Real Photographs original on which, in modern blue felt tip pen, a caption has been written of "Down Sheffield Pullman, Potters Bar":
- and I really don't think so because that train didn't load very heavily and was never observed with more than five cars while the "Harrogate Pullman" is known to have started with six and prospered. In this picture they are a mixture of 12w and 8w cars. I am pretty sure that other pictures show this early period and are routinely blank on the back; I shall have to have a rummage. H.Gordon Tidey, Real Photographs.
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The Sheffield Pullman LNER 1924-25
The Sheffield Pullman was the shortest lived of all the LNER Pullmans, only running in 1924-25, initially from KX to Sheffield, then from Sheffield, and finally, from Manchester, see pages 113-115. Pullman trains were so heavily photographed that a casual look can give the impression that they were the most numerous trains on the line. The "Sheffield Pullman", however, was so short-lived and travelled to the GC Section that few pictures were taken and they are quite rare, and often miscaptioned. Because it ran so early in LNER days, it was made up with "white" Pullmans.
This picture was used in the book but got cropped quite heavily to emphasise the carriages and the exhaust darkened - it is quite a tricky and dark image. Here is a wider view. The 5-car formation included a Kitchen 1st, two Kitchen 3rds, and two 3rd brakes whose design (between 8- and 12-wheelers) was changed. This is the original formation with four 12w cars and one 8w. Photographed during the first week of operation in 1924 at Woolmer Green behind ex-GCR Robinson B2 No 425 City of London. Photo: Author's collection.
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This picture was taken a little later in the summer of 1924 with C1 No 3301 (KX) in charge and is unusual because one of the 12w cars has been replaced by an 8w design, making two in the train. It wasn't long before older 12w cars made up the whole train. Photographed at Hadley Wood (and miscaptioned as "c1930" and in modern biro, the "West Riding Pullman"). Photo: Real Photographs.
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