He also needed Edward and Henry to pull his passenger train after he broke his safety valve in front of Henry's Tunnel. However, he would soon find he needed help from Edward to be his banker after he got stuck on a hill with a train of trucks. In 1923, therefore Gordon was no longer needed and was sold to the North Western Railway together with a spare boiler and firebox.ĭuring Gordon's early years on the railway, he often looked down on the smaller engines like Edward and Thomas. He was used experimentally until all defects had been cured and the first batch of Pacifics had appeared in 1922/23. The design had faults which needed correction, so Gordon was kept "hush hush" and apart from test runs, was never put into regular traffic or assigned a GNR number. Gordon was built at Doncaster between 1920-22 as an experimental prototype for Sir Nigel Gresley's A1 Pacific design for the Great Northern Railway.
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