Re: Vulcan Fairlie top speed and livery question

From experience Fairlie hold the track well and I have been on the footplate of one, now in the National Railway Museum in York, which was clocked doing 40mph in the late 1960s by a car travelling on a road next to the railway. It was on a straight section of track just under 1 mile long. It was running light engine back to the loco shed. The ride was very smooth on what was not the best track. There is also alleged evidence of a Double Fairlie in South America manging to run away in the Andes, making a long decent calculated to have reached 60 mph and stayed on the track, with no crew on board. Vulcan Foundry was in Newton le Willows. They built large numbers of Locos of all types, mostly for export. The plant has completely gone.
Fascinating locos.

Vince.