LNWR 18in Goods Class
The LNWR 18-inch Goods was a class of 310 0-6-0 freight steam locomotives built by the London and North Western Railway at their Crewe Works between 1880 and 1902.[1]
They were also known officially as the Express Goods 5 ft 0in, and unofficially as the Crested Goods or Cauliflower Class, due to the application of the large LNWR crest on the middle splasher in the original livery.[2]
Design
The design featured a boiler pressed to 150 lbf/in2 (1.03 MPa) delivering saturated steam to two 18 by 24 in (457 by 610 mm) cylinders connected by Joy valve gear to the driving wheels.
The dimensions quoted in the class title could be misleading: several locomotives ran for a period with 17-or-17+1⁄2-inch (432 or 444 mm) cylinders; and the “5ft 0in” referred to the diameter of the wheel centres – measured of the tyres the diameter was 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm).
A tank locomotive version was also produced as the LNWR 18in Tank Class 0-6-2T.
Service
Two locomotives were withdrawn before the 1923 Grouping, leaving 308 to pass to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, who gave them power classification 2F, and renumbered them 8315–8624. The LMS later added them to the duplicate list by the addition of 20000 to their numbers to make room for additional Class 8F locomotives.
Sixty-nine locomotives entered British Railways (BR) stock in 1948. BR allocated them the numbers 58362–58430, as adding 40000 to their numbers as was done with most ex-LMS locomotives would have taken them into the 6xxxx ex-LNER series. The last one was withdrawn from British Railways service in 1955. None were preserved.
References
- ^ "Goods Engines of LNWR - 18in Goods".
- ^ Baxter 1979, p. 232.
- Baxter, Bertram (1979). Baxter, David (ed.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, Volume 2B: London and North Western Railway and its constituent companies. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company. pp. 232–239. ISBN 0-903485-84-2.
- Casserley, H. C. & Johnston, Stuart W. (1974) [1966]. Locomotives at the Grouping 3: London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan. pp. 89–90. ISBN 0-7110-0554-0.
- v
- t
- e
- SFB passenger
- 187 Velocipede
- 173 Cornwall
- 290 Rocket
- LFB passenger
- 7ft Single (Raven)
- 176 Courier
- SFB goods
- LFB goods
- SFB goods tank
- LFB goods tank
- 3020 Cornwall (renewed)
- 271
- DX
- Problem / Lady of the Lake
- Bloomer
- McConnell Goods
- Wolverton Express Goods
- 4ft Shunter
- Samson
- Newton
- Special Tank
- Alfred the Great
- Chopper Tank
- Coal Engine
- Coal Tank
- Experiment
- Dreadnought
- Teutonic
- Greater Britain
- John Hick
- Dock Tank
- Precursor
- Precedent
- Improved Precedent
- Jubilee
- Waterloo
- 4ft 6in Tank
- 5ft 6in Tank
- 18in Goods (Cauliflower)
- 18in Tank
- A
- B
- 1400 Class
- No new locomotive classes
This article relating to steam locomotives operated in the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e