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The whole concept was quietly dropped in 1951 after Bulleid left British Railways
to become Chief Mechanical Engineer of Cras Iompair ireann (where he produced CI No. CC1, a peat-burning locomotive to a similar design), and all five were scrapped. The culmination of the project was a 178,865 5s 0d (4,074,550.40 in today's money, converted at the 1950 rate) bill for the taxpayer, though when the press reported the story as late as 1953, 500,000 (11,390,000.00) was claimed to have been wasted on the project. R. G. Jarvis, who was placed in charge of the project after Bulleid's departure, insisted that the locomotive required an entire re-design to solve the problems of the original concept. No members of the Leader class survived the 1950s, and only the numberplates of No. 36001 and No. 36002 are known to exist. The numberplate for No. 36001 is located in the National Railway Museum, although a locomotive builder's plate intended for the locomotive, but never fitted in service, was sold at auction in 2008. The Leader was a bold attempt at pushing back the boundaries of contemporary steam locomotive design, and if successful, would have prolonged the life of steam on Britain's Railways. References Notes ^ a b c Bulleid (1977), p. 143 ^ a b c Bulleid (1977), p. 135 ^ a b c d e Day-Lewis (1964), The Leader locomotive ^ a b Bulleid (1977), p. 129 ^ Bulleid (1977), p. 136 ^ a b c d e f g h i j Haresnape (1979), Section 4 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 116 ^ a b c Harris (1994), p. 115 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 42 ^ a b Robertson (2007), p. 46 ^ a b c Tuplin (1965), p. 413 ^ a b Robertson (2007), p. 47 ^ a b c Tuplin, p. 414 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 77 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 25 ^ a b c d e Harris (1994), p. 116 ^ Bulleid (1977), p. 145 ^ a b Harris (1994), p. 117 ^ Tuplin (1965), p. 415 ^ a b Robertson (2007), p. 95 ^ Bulleid (1977), p. 125 ^ Bulleid (1977), p. 140 ^ Bulleid (1977), p. 141 ^ Cox (1966), p. 18 ^ Cox (1966), p. 19 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 151 ^ Bulleid (1977), p. 151 ^ Cox (1966), p. 16 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 87 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 158 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 156 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 150 ^ Burridge (1975), p. 60 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 37 ^ Sunday Dispatch, 18 January 1953 ^ Robertson (2007), p. 110 ^ Great Central Railwayana Auctions (2007) Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 6 October 2007, Retrieved February 17, 2009. Sold for 1050, see Lot 24. Bibliography Bulleid, H. A. V.: Bulleid of the Southern (Hinckley: Ian Allan Publishing, 1977) ISBN 071100689X Burridge, Frank: Nameplates of the Big Four (Oxford Publishing Company: Oxford, 1975) ISBN 0902888439 Cox, E. S.: Locomotive Panorama (London: Ian Allan, 196566), Vol. 2 Day-Lewis, S.: Bulleid, Last Giant of Steam (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1964) Haresnape, Brian: Bulleid Locomotives: A Pictorial History (London: Ian Allan, 1979) Harris, Michael: "Firing Bulleid's 'Leader'" (Steam Days: 66, 1994) Robertson, Kevin: The Leader Project: Fiasco or Triumph? (Oxford: Oxford Publishing Company, 2007) ISBN 0860936066 Sunday Dispatch, 18 January 1953 Tuplin, W.A.: "The ill-fated 'Leader'" (Railway World: 26, 1965) Further reading Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, 1950 edition Carter, Ernest F.: Unusual Locomotives (Frederick Muller Ltd., 1960) Nock, O.S.: Southern Steam (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1972) Robertson, Kevin: Leader and Southern Experimental Steam (Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1990) Tufnell, Robert: Prototype Locomotives (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1985) External links Trains portal "Leader" class locomotive vde Principal Locomotives of the Southern Railway Urie: H15 class N15 class S15 class Maunsell: K and K1 classes L1 class Lord Nelson class N class N1 class N15 (King Arthur) class N15X class Q class U class U1 class V "Schools" class W class Z class Bulleid: Leader class Merchant Navy class Q1 class USA class West Country and Battle of Britain classes Non-steam locomotives: Diesel shunters 1 to 3 Diesel shunters 15211 to 15236 Mainline diesels 10201 to 10203 Electrics CC1 to CC3 British Railways steam locomotives GWR locomotives LMS locomotives LNER locomotives Southern Railway locomotives Categories: Southern Railway locomotives | 0-6-6-0 locomotives | Articulated locomotives | Experimental locomotives | Railway locomotives introduced in 1949Hidden categories: Unusual parameters of Infobox locomotive template | Featured articles
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