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https://www.evshift.com/497006/lfp-battery-failures-just-forced-gac-to-double-its-ev-warranty-to-300000km/ LFP Battery Failures Just Forced GAC to Double Its EV Warranty to 300,000km #300000km #AionS #Battery #BatteryFailure #Calb #ChinaEV #Double #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicle #ElectricVehicles #EV #EvWarranty #Failures #FORCED #GAC #GACAion #LFP #LFPBattery #warranty

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #519: Concord.
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#gaming #flops #comics #sony #videogames #commercialflops #fails #failures #oopsie #strangebuttrue #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #519: Concord.
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#gaming #flops #comics #sony #videogames #commercialflops #fails #failures #oopsie #strangebuttrue #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

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☹️🥺💔💁‍♀️*Foreclosures climb 21% in first half of 2026, pushed by higher stress in FHA, VA mortgages👉

#EVIL #TRUMPS #AND #REPUBLICAN #Politicians #FAILURES #ARE #EVERYWHERE! #AND #IN #EVERYTHING

Foreclosures climb 21% in first half of 2026 as timelines shorten
https://www.housingwire.com/articles/us-foreclosures-rise-2026-midyear-attom-report/

Two AI tools, one warning: your data is not safe with them yet

https://1ban.news/ai-agents-user-protection-failures-2026/
#1ban #agents #user #protection #failures #tech

🤖 Oh no, #AI can't recreate a crusty old game from '86! 🕹️ But don't worry, it can *help* you understand its groundbreaking mechanics, like pressing buttons! 🎮😅 Randall muses on how an AI's failure to code #retro jet physics totally revolutionizes... something? 🚀
https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/thrust_ai_powered_software_archaeology/ #Failures #Gaming #GameDev #TechInsights #HackerNews #ngated

🤖 Oh no, #AI can't recreate a crusty old game from '86! 🕹️ But don't worry, it can *help* you understand its groundbreaking mechanics, like pressing buttons! 🎮😅 Randall muses on how an AI's failure to code #retro jet physics totally revolutionizes... something? 🚀
https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/thrust_ai_powered_software_archaeology/ #Failures #Gaming #GameDev #TechInsights #HackerNews #ngated

Capitalism Gone Wrong

https://kasperjunge.com/blog/capitalism-gone-wrong/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864233

#HackerNews #capitalism #critique #economic #issues #social #commentary #market #failures

Capitalism Gone Wrong

https://kasperjunge.com/blog/capitalism-gone-wrong/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864233

#HackerNews #capitalism #critique #economic #issues #social #commentary #market #failures

CAPTCHAs: the digital equivalent of squinting at a Magic Eye poster only to realize it's a blurry middle finger. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♀️ After two decades, they're still about as effective as a #security guard asleep on the job. 🛌🔒 Keep trying, internet!
https://www.browserbase.com/blog/why-captchas-are-getting-harder #CAPTCHA #Failures #Internet #DigitalArt #Frustration #OnlineExperience #HackerNews #ngated

CAPTCHAs: the digital equivalent of squinting at a Magic Eye poster only to realize it's a blurry middle finger. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♀️ After two decades, they're still about as effective as a #security guard asleep on the job. 🛌🔒 Keep trying, internet!
https://www.browserbase.com/blog/why-captchas-are-getting-harder #CAPTCHA #Failures #Internet #DigitalArt #Frustration #OnlineExperience #HackerNews #ngated

The opening of the new Stuttgart Central Station, part of the Stuttgart 21 project, is reportedly being pushed back until the end of 2031. According to reports... https://news.osna.fm/?p=49916 | #news #amid #delays #failures #massive

💥 Ah, the riveting tale of #ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED, a saga so legendary that not even #Microsoft could make it more boring if they tried! 🤦‍♂️ Who knew that dumpster diving through Microsoft's archaic error codes could be this thrilling? 🗑️ Spoiler alert: it wasn't.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260519-00/?p=112339 #Failures #TechHumor #ErrorCodes #DumpsterDiving #HackerNews #ngated

💥 Ah, the riveting tale of #ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED, a saga so legendary that not even #Microsoft could make it more boring if they tried! 🤦‍♂️ Who knew that dumpster diving through Microsoft's archaic error codes could be this thrilling? 🗑️ Spoiler alert: it wasn't.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260519-00/?p=112339 #Failures #TechHumor #ErrorCodes #DumpsterDiving #HackerNews #ngated

The Register: Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures. “There’s good news and bad news when it comes to datacenter uptime. According to a recent report from the Uptime Institute, bit barns have actually gotten more resilient over the past five years. However, the report suggests that those datacenter failures that do occur are lasting longer and costing more to resolve.”

The Register: Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures. “There’s good news and bad news when it comes to datacenter uptime. According to a recent report from the Uptime Institute, bit barns have actually gotten more resilient over the past five years. However, the report suggests that those datacenter failures that do occur are lasting longer and costing more to resolve.”

Ah, the digital equivalent of watching paint dry... but with more jargon and less satisfaction! 🎨🤖 Behold, the majestic neural net, valiantly failing to entertain as it "learns" to slither on a grid, proving once and for all that even #AI can have an existential crisis. 🐍💻
https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/ #Failures #NeuralNet #ExistentialCrisis #TechHumor #DigitalArt #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the digital equivalent of watching paint dry... but with more jargon and less satisfaction! 🎨🤖 Behold, the majestic neural net, valiantly failing to entertain as it "learns" to slither on a grid, proving once and for all that even #AI can have an existential crisis. 🐍💻
https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/ #Failures #NeuralNet #ExistentialCrisis #TechHumor #DigitalArt #HackerNews #ngated

Nicolás Maduro Guerra, the son of the Venezuelan former leader, Nicolás Maduro, who is currently detained in the United States, recently expressed concerns abou... https://news.osna.fm/?p=45880 | #news #admits #chavismos #failures #maduros

🎉 BREAKING: GitHub accidentally leaks its own token in Actions logs! 🎉 It's like they finally decided to play hide and seek, but forgot the 'hide' part. 🤦‍♂️ GitHub devs now busy inventing new ways to accidentally leave the #backdoor open. 🚪🔓
https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-f9f8-rm49-7jv2 #GitHubLeaks #GitHubActions #SecurityBreach #DevOps #Failures #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 BREAKING: GitHub accidentally leaks its own token in Actions logs! 🎉 It's like they finally decided to play hide and seek, but forgot the 'hide' part. 🤦‍♂️ GitHub devs now busy inventing new ways to accidentally leave the #backdoor open. 🚪🔓
https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-f9f8-rm49-7jv2 #GitHubLeaks #GitHubActions #SecurityBreach #DevOps #Failures #HackerNews #ngated

Whittier HATED slavery...

So fallen! so lost! the light
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!
...
Oh, dumb be passion’s stormy rage,
When he who might
Have lighted up and led his age,
Falls back in night.

—John Greenleaf Whittier, "Ichabod"

Whittier opposed slavery totally, though he wrote this about Daniel Webster, who at the end, decided to compromise with slavers, to preserve the nation.
#AntiSlavery
#Poetry #Heroes are #Failures often.

Whittier HATED slavery...

So fallen! so lost! the light
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!
...
Oh, dumb be passion’s stormy rage,
When he who might
Have lighted up and led his age,
Falls back in night.

—John Greenleaf Whittier, "Ichabod"

Whittier opposed slavery totally, though he wrote this about Daniel Webster, who at the end, decided to compromise with slavers, to preserve the nation.
#AntiSlavery
#Poetry #Heroes are #Failures often.

#SriLanka seeks buyers for #airport built with #Chinese loans
"airport has failed to generate enuf revenue to cover even electricity bills since open'g in 2013.. is named aft fmr pres M #Rajapaksa, who borrowed heavily fr #China for #infrastructure projs tt quickly became commercial #failures.. Mattala airport's located on a migratory bird route.. 🇱🇰’s military deployed 100s of troops to remove deer, wild buffalo & elephants fr te runway so op'ns cld continue"🤦‍♂️
#corruption
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka-seeks-buyers-for-white-elephant-airport

#SriLanka seeks buyers for #airport built with #Chinese loans
"airport has failed to generate enuf revenue to cover even electricity bills since open'g in 2013.. is named aft fmr pres M #Rajapaksa, who borrowed heavily fr #China for #infrastructure projs tt quickly became commercial #failures.. Mattala airport's located on a migratory bird route.. 🇱🇰’s military deployed 100s of troops to remove deer, wild buffalo & elephants fr te runway so op'ns cld continue"🤦‍♂️
#corruption
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka-seeks-buyers-for-white-elephant-airport

Geraldine Rauch, former president of the Technical University of Berlin (TU), warns that Berlin's universities are currently in a disastrous state. She detailed... https://news.osna.fm/?p=43282 | #news #alarm #failures #funding #professor

Former Federal Minister-President Peter Altmaier (CDU) has warned about a potential failure of the current federal government, led by Friedrich Merz (CDU), amid... https://news.osna.fm/?p=42523 | #news #cdu #economic #exminster #failures

Oh, look! Yet another #AI magic wand that promises to fix your #LLM app #failures without a crystal ball. 🙄✨ Kelet boldly claims to pinpoint root causes so you can ship like a pro, but let's be honest, it's just another "book a demo" black hole in #SaaS disguise. 🚀💸
https://kelet.ai/ #MagicWand #TechTrends #BookADemo #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look! Yet another #AI magic wand that promises to fix your #LLM app #failures without a crystal ball. 🙄✨ Kelet boldly claims to pinpoint root causes so you can ship like a pro, but let's be honest, it's just another "book a demo" black hole in #SaaS disguise. 🚀💸
https://kelet.ai/ #MagicWand #TechTrends #BookADemo #HackerNews #ngated

I Demand That Jay-Z Perform All Of ‘Kingdom Come’ At His Yankee Stadium Concert

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/i-demand-that-jay-z-perform-all-of-kingdom-come-at-his-yankee-stadium-concert

I Demand That Jay-Z Perform All Of ‘Kingdom Come’ At His Yankee Stadium Concert

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/i-demand-that-jay-z-perform-all-of-kingdom-come-at-his-yankee-stadium-concert

Инцидент с Unitree G1 — это не курьёз, а наглядная демонстрация системного риска киберфизических систем. Ошибка в софте, сенсорах или управлении в случае LLM остаётся на уровне текста; в случае роботизированной платформы она немедленно материализуется в силу, импульс и травму.

По мере масштабирования внедрения человекоподобных машин плотность таких инцидентов будет расти — это статистика, а не предположение. Следовательно, ключевой вектор — не «запретить», а ужесточить инженерные практики: fail-safe архитектуры, ограничение усилий (force limiting), безопасные режимы по умолчанию, стандарты сертификации и протоколы взаимодействия с человеком.

Иначе рынок получит не «умных помощников», а источник регулярных травм с предсказуемым репутационным и регуляторным откатом.

#роботы #искусственныйинтеллект #технобезопасность #Unitree #робототехника #AIриски #человекомашинное_взаимодействие #киберфизические_системы #автоматизация #инциденты #безопасность #технологии #будущее #LLM #AI #роботика #рискиИИ #humanrobotinteraction #safetyengineering #failures

https://bastyon.com/svalmon37?ref=PJ51iZCUEtcVrCj4Wof8Am7FbKLgbAJ7PS

Инцидент с Unitree G1 — это не курьёз, а наглядная демонстрация системного риска киберфизических систем. Ошибка в софте, сенсорах или управлении в случае LLM остаётся на уровне текста; в случае роботизированной платформы она немедленно материализуется в силу, импульс и травму.

По мере масштабирования внедрения человекоподобных машин плотность таких инцидентов будет расти — это статистика, а не предположение. Следовательно, ключевой вектор — не «запретить», а ужесточить инженерные практики: fail-safe архитектуры, ограничение усилий (force limiting), безопасные режимы по умолчанию, стандарты сертификации и протоколы взаимодействия с человеком.

Иначе рынок получит не «умных помощников», а источник регулярных травм с предсказуемым репутационным и регуляторным откатом.

#роботы #искусственныйинтеллект #технобезопасность #Unitree #робототехника #AIриски #человекомашинное_взаимодействие #киберфизические_системы #автоматизация #инциденты #безопасность #технологии #будущее #LLM #AI #роботика #рискиИИ #humanrobotinteraction #safetyengineering #failures

https://bastyon.com/svalmon37?ref=PJ51iZCUEtcVrCj4Wof8Am7FbKLgbAJ7PS

From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures

https://en.andros.dev/blog/aa31d744/from-zero-to-a-rag-system-successes-and-failures/

#HackerNews #zeroToRAG #successes #failures #RAGsystem #HackerNews

From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures

https://en.andros.dev/blog/aa31d744/from-zero-to-a-rag-system-successes-and-failures/

#HackerNews #zeroToRAG #successes #failures #RAGsystem #HackerNews

Your #QA isn’t slow.
It’s overloaded😐

Too many test cases.
Too many #failures.
Too little insight.

#AI testing tools don’t just #automate
They decide what actually matters

But most teams still pick #tools the wrong way.

Read More: https://www.testrigtechnologies.com/ai-tools-for-software-testing-insights-for-smarter-qa/

The Failed City: I Wrote a Book About What We Bury

I have been staring at a patch of asphalt in Jersey City for thirteen years. That is not a figure of speech. I mean that in late September 2013, I watched a road crew roll fresh blacktop over 150-year-old granite cobblestones on Baldwin Avenue in the Heights, and the image has not released me since. The cobblestones were ballast stones, carried across the Atlantic Ocean in the holds of empty cargo ships and dumped on American docks because the ships needed the weight for the crossing and needed to shed it to load American exports for the return trip. Those stones were repurposed as paving. They became streets. They outlasted the ships, the shipping companies, the trade routes, the empires that commissioned them. And in 2013, a man in a road roller buried them under asphalt because, as he told me with the patience of someone explaining gravity, cobblestones eat up tires.

That exchange is where the book starts. It is also where the book’s argument starts, because what happened on Baldwin Avenue is a precise physical enactment of a larger institutional habit: the preference for covering failure rather than studying it, for smoothing the surface rather than examining what lies beneath.

The Failed City: An Autopsy of Urban Collapse is now available from David Boles Books.

What the Book Does

The book conducts autopsies. Twenty of them, organized into five taxonomies of urban failure, spanning two millennia, three continents, and one diagnostic framework that I built to answer a question nobody in the urban planning literature seemed to be asking: why do we refuse to study the cities that died with the same rigor we bring to the cities that worked?

The five taxonomies are catastrophic erasure, economic exsanguination, the utopian misfire, slow municipal death, and the never-built city. Each describes a distinct mode of urban death. Each contains case studies drawn from published sources, government records, journalistic accounts, and in several cases my own observation. I have walked the streets described in this book. I have taught at the universities that serve them. The Jersey City Heights, Camden, Newark: these are places I know from the sidewalk, not from the satellite view.

Pompeii is in the book because it is the oldest and most complete case of catastrophic erasure in the Western record. Pripyat is in the book because it is the newest, a city of 49,000 people evacuated in thirty-six hours after Chernobyl and never reoccupied. Centralia, Pennsylvania, is in the book because the coal mine fire that started beneath it in 1962 is still burning, and because the state’s decision to bury Graffiti Highway under dirt is the most literal act of concealment I have encountered in any case study. Galveston is in the book because it was the largest city in Texas in 1900 and it is not anymore, and the reason it is not anymore is that Houston built a ship channel and absorbed Galveston’s port function, which meant that the hurricane that destroyed Galveston was fatal precisely because the economic function that would have justified rebuilding had already migrated fifty miles inland.

Gary, Indiana, is in the book because U.S. Steel built it in 1906 and then left. Cairo, Illinois, is in the book because its own governing class burned it down through a sustained campaign of racial violence so thorough that the city lost ninety percent of its population. Flint is in the book because the governance structure appointed to save money ended by poisoning the water. Pittsburgh is in the book because it did not die, and the reasons it survived expose the reasons the others did not.

Laurent, South Dakota, is in the book because it is the most instructive failure I have ever encountered. A planned Deaf community where more than a hundred families signed reservation forms and zero relocated. The idea was serious, the enthusiasm was real, and the distance between signing a form and packing a truck turned out to be the distance between a vision and a life. I have worked in the Deaf community for decades through HardcoreASL.com, ASL-Opera.com, and the CUNY-SPS ASL Program, and Janna Sweenie’s characterization of Laurent as a “Deaf Utopia” captures the arc perfectly: enthusiastic communal aspiration followed by collective inaction.

Where the Argument Came From

A colleague of mine at Rutgers-Newark, years ago, made a case for the publication of failure that I have carried forward as an intellectual commitment ever since. His field was research methodology, and his contention was that failed scholarship, research rigorously conducted that ended by disproving its own thesis, deserved publication with the same velocity and seriousness as research that confirmed its hypothesis. Journals published findings. Careers advanced on discoveries. The experiments that did not find what they were looking for were filed away, and the filing-away constituted a loss of the knowledge that the failure itself contained.

He was not a person I admired, and the reasons for that are his own business. But the argument he made that day was better than the person who made it. That fact is itself a version of the thesis this book advances: useful knowledge does not confine itself to attractive sources.

The Failed City applies that principle to urban collapse. Failed cities generate data. Abandoned plans produce evidence. Collapsed communities contain information about what went wrong, when it went wrong, and what the conditions were that made the failure possible. That data is as valuable as the data generated by the cities that succeeded. Our refusal to publish it, to study it, to assemble it into a systematic account, guarantees the repetition of errors that have already been committed and documented and then filed away.

The Diagnostic

The book builds a diagnostic framework with three levels: the baseline condition (what the city had before the crisis), the triggering condition (what initiated the decline), and the cascade (the self-reinforcing cycle that follows). The framework is offered as a tool. It works for every case study in the book, and I suspect it works for cases the book does not examine. The Prairie Voice article I published alongside this book, “The Other Side of the Blacktop,” argues that the same framework applies to rural collapse with equal precision. Any rancher in western Kansas who has watched the feedlot close and the equipment dealer follow it and the diner follow that can diagram the cascade on a napkin.

Jane Jacobs and the Missing Half

Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961. The title promises a study of death and life. The book delivers overwhelmingly on the life. It is one of the great books of the twentieth century, and I assign it in every course I teach that touches urban questions. It is also a book that does not deliver on the first word of its own title. Jacobs studied what makes cities work. She did not study what makes them die.

The Failed City is the death half of the equation, the book that Jacobs’ title promises and her text does not deliver. Jacobs remains one of the great urbanists. The gap in the literature remains real. No comparable book exists. The field has single-city studies (Sugrue on Detroit, Gillette on Camden, Gordon on St. Louis) and academic shrinking-cities literature, but no cross-taxonomic diagnostic framework for a general readership. The Failed City is, as far as I have been able to determine, the first.

The Cobblestones

The cobblestones are still there. Under the asphalt on Baldwin Avenue, under the dirt that covers Graffiti Highway in Centralia, under the grass that grows over the graded roads of California City. The evidence of failure is more durable than the surfaces we lay on top of it. Asphalt cracks. Dirt erodes. Grass thins. And the substrate will still be there, waiting to be examined by anyone willing to look at what lies beneath the blacktop.

The answer is beneath the blacktop. It has been there the whole time.

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail

#HackerNews #ContinuousIntegration #CI #Failures #SoftwareDevelopment #DevOps #Agile

🥴 "Big Data on the cheapest MacBook" is the tech world's equivalent of trying to fit a whale in a bathtub, but sure, let's benchmark that. 🙄 Spoiler alert: it's as effective as using a paper straw to drink a milkshake. 🍹💻
https://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbook #BigData #CheapMacBook #TechBenchmark #Failures #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

The thread about the “Galloping Sausage”; promising a lot but delivering a little

On this day (July 31st) in 1930, the curious LNER (London & North Eastern Railway) locomotive No. 10000 left Waverley station in Edinburgh at the head of the up Flying Scotsman. Hush Hush, as it was known, was an experimental prototype, fitted with a high-pressure water tube boiler: technology that ultimately proved more trouble than it was worth.

This engine known as “Hush Hush” on account of the great secrecy that surrounded its design and construction; it was kept covered in sheeting whenever prying eyes were around to try and conceal what secrets lay beneath. Its internal company class name was the more mundane W1. The LNER and its designer hoped that its efficiency would make it the next great thing.From some angles it looked undeniably cool: sleek and furutistic.

From other angles it looked like the mutant offspring of a wide-mouthed frog and a white pudding (it was painted light grey, initially). A great, wallowing, temperamental, steam-powered sausage.

The great technological secrete beneath its sausage-like exterior, and the reason for its curious appearance, was the custom-built water-tube boiler. These sorts of boilers were usually for high-end marine applications, so its construction was contracted out to the Yarrow & Co. shipyard in Glasgow. Without turning this story into a lecture about boiler design, in simple terms a traditional steam locomotive boiler is of the fire-tube type; hot combustion gasses go along tubes through a pressurised tank of water to hear it. By by its nature this structure has many built-in weaknesses where the tubes penetrate the boiler. In a water-tube boiler, it is the small tubes that contain the water, under pressure, heated by combustion gases from the outside. This allowed operated at 450psi vs. the usual 180-200psi of a typical railway fire-tube boiler of its time.

Because it works at a higher pressure, the steam is hotter within a water-tube boiler, therefore its potential do do work is greater. In theory, compared to a lower-pressure boiler, it can produce more power from the same amount of fuel (or the same amount of power for less fuel) and therefore will be more efficient. The theory was all well and good, but at the business end the engineers did not understand how to exploit the high pressure steam in a “compound” system (that is, one where steam is used first at a high pressure to drive one set of pistons and then at lower pressure to drive another, to extract as much of the work from it as possible.)

No. 10000 was the brainchild of the LNER’s Chief Mechanical Engineer, Nigel Gresley; not usually a man associated with making engineering mistakes. Gresley, coincidentally and relevantly for this sites main themes, was an accidental son of Edinburgh: his family were from Derbyshire, but he entered this world early on a visit by his expectant mother to see a gynaecologist in the New Town.

A cross-sectional illustration of “a Unique New Engine” with “a War-Ship Boiler” was printed in the Illustrated London News in January 1930. It shows just how tight a squeeze things were on the inside. One of the only design efficiencies that No. 10000 ended up having was a 14% smaller fire grate than a comparable locomotive.

A water-tube boiler has no steam dome, so that familiar feature of a steam locomotive was missing. To accommodate the unusual size and profile of the water-tube boiler, the engine’s outer casing was carried all the way to the maximum permissible height, with the safety valves and whistles were recessed into the side. The odd-looking front end was designed to scoop air into the casing, to pre-heat it before entering the firebox, and to throw exhaust smoke clear of the cab

With no visible chimney or dome and that big, silvery, pudding of an outer casing, No. 10000 looked odd enough. But as the boiler had to hang further back than usual it needed an extra pair of wheels for support, on a double-articulated rear truck, giving a highly unusual 4-6-2-2 configuration (4 leading wheels on a bogie, 6 driving wheels, 2 trailing wheels on a Cartazzi axle and then a futher 2 wheels trailing on a separate Bissel truck). No. 10000 was never officially named – name plates to christen it “British Enterprise” were optimistically cast – but these were never fitted, and it was probably a good thing on account of the technical headache and operational embarrassment that it turned out to be. As well as “Hush Hush”, the less than flattering nickname of “Galloping Sausage” was unofficially applied.

No. 10000 was tested on the mainline for quite few years, with various tweaks and changes being made to try and improve its performance. In some aspects it showed promise, but these were offset by its heavy coal consumption, high build and running costs, lower power and poor reliability. Its fundamental problem however, was that it was a totally unique design, when every other locomotive on the LNER had a fire-tube boiler; there was reduced commonality and no economy of scale. It was quietly rebuilt with a fire-tube boiler and new outer casing into an approximation of a standard A4 Pacific in 1937 (also designed by Nigel Gresley). In this guise it served the railway for longer than its original form, all the way into British Railways days as No. 60700.

The only major blot on the otherwise unremarkable and reliable service of its second life was an ignominious slow-speed derailment at Peterborough in September 1955 which saw No. 60700 end up sprawled on its side. There were no serious injuries, and the three men on the footplate were thrown clear and unhurt. The damage was not significant and the locomotive was righted, repaired, and put back in service for a further decade before being withdrawn for scrap. Its tender survived into preservation with the A4 Pacific No. 60009 “Union of South Africa“

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