Operation
The Counties were a successful, free steaming design, well suited to express or freight work and a fitting finale to GW two-cylinder 4-6-0 development. Unfortunately in the immediate post-war period when the Government-run Railway Executive controlled Britain's railways Hawksworth was not allowed to build his Pacific, as there was no need for further express passenger locomotives. Hawksworth was forever bitter about this, as in the darkest days of World War II the Executive had given the Southern Railway permission to build its Merchant Navy Class Pacific as Oliver Bulleid, the designer, had claimed that they were to be for mixed traffic work.
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