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Though the two steam locomotives were roughly contemporaries, LNER A4 Pacific (4-6-2) No. 4468 Mallard and Southern Railway Q1-class 0-6-0 C1 are extremely different, and make for an odd couple at the National Railway Museum. Mallard was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley in the late 1930s to pull streamlined passenger trains, and proved that locomotion could match aviation when it came to speed and modernism. C1 was designed by Oliver V.S. Bulleid during World War II, when austerity and the demands of a wartime economy forced the construction of a large, plain goods engine. It's been said that form follows function, and there are few places where it is as apparent as in the field of locomotive design.

Description
Though the two steam locomotives were roughly contemporaries, LNER A4 Pacific (4-6-2) No. 4468 Mallard and Southern Railway Q1-class 0-6-0 C1 are extremely different, and make for an odd couple at the National Railway Museum. Mallard was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley in the late 1930s to pull streamlined passenger trains, and proved that locomotion could match aviation when it came to speed and modernism. C1 was designed by Oliver V.S. Bulleid during World War II, when austerity and the demands of a wartime economy forced the construction of a large, plain goods engine. It's been said that form follows function, and there are few places where it is as apparent as in the field of locomotive design.