2020年9月1日 · "LBSC" was the pen-name of one of model engineering's most prolific writers. Lillian "Curly" Lawrence was born in 1882 and by the time he died in 1967 had designed over 100 locomotives, building over 50 himself.

Lillian "Curly" Lawrence (September 27, 1883 – November 4, 1967), known as LBSC, was one of Britain's most prolific and well known model or scale-steam-locomotive designers. [1] LBSC were the initials of Britain's London, Brighton and South Coast Railway , …

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway E1 Class were 0-6-0 T steam locomotives designed by William Stroudley in 1874 for short-distance goods and piloting duties. They were originally classified E, and generally known as "E-tanks"; They were reclassified E1 …

Grosvenor is generally regarded as the masterpiece of LBSC. Completed in 1957, this locomotive unusually occupied ten years for a man who otherwise could turn out locomotives like shelling peas. Grosvenor is a 2-2-2 single from his beloved London Brighton & South Coast Railway.

2018年5月22日 · Index of Wheel Sizes for various locomotive classes. Includes Joint Committee, London & Brighton Railway, London & Croydon Railway and some South Eastern Railway. An …

IT IS 100 YEARS since a certain ’Lylia’ first wrote for the journal Models, Railways and Locomotives. That was almost certainly Lillian Lawrence, or LBSC to give him his later nom de plume, or Curly - his preferred sobriquet.

2006年3月27日 · During World War II, LBSC produced designs for two locomotives, Bat and Owl, that could be built in either gauge 1 or gauge 0, for alcohol or coal firing. His premise was that these locomotives could be operated indoors during the wartime blackout, since (he claimed) large-scale locomotives operating outdoors in evening would cast unwanted ...

2003年7月26日 · The LBSC was better than the other Southern Companies in keeping locomotive classes more or less in consecutive numbers, but they could issue these numbers somewhat randomly! The following table is set out in order of build:

2003年3月14日 · Four LBSC loco projects have found their way to my workshop. First is a 2X (7.5"ga) TICH (modified) which is an ongoing project. Next is a part-built 5"ga Maid of Kent, which according to accounts is a fine locomotive for club running with the exception of the valve gear which can be significantly improved.

In January 1891, Robert Billinton was given authority to build ten new 0-6-0 freight locomotives, to supplement William Stroudley 's C1 class of 1882-7. However, at the time, Brighton railway works was fully committed building Billinton's various classes of radial tanks and so tenders were sought from outside contractors.