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Marshall on brakes.
This sounds unlikely to me. Can anyone confirm that locomotives were built with no brakes at all? Should it say that most trains had no through brakes and relied on the locomotive crew and guard applying their hand brakes?
--[[User:Graham Phillips 110|Graham Phillips 110]] ([[User talk:Graham Phillips 110|talk]]) 07:54, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
:I paraphrased from Marshall's SVR book, p121 (talking about when the line first opened). Marshall's actual wording is ''Trains had hand brakes only; tender engines had no brakes whatever and could be stopped either by a hand brake on the tender or, in an emergency, by throwing them into reverse. Some tank engines had hand brakes, others no brakes.'' And from p122, ''With the gradual introduction of continuous brakes on passenger trains, brakes on locomotives began to appear in 1876, largely to relieve the stress on drawbars when the train brakes were applied.'' I will try and tweak the wording accordingly. --[[User:Robin|Robin]] ([[User talk:Robin|talk]]) 19:44, 11 October 2015 (UTC)