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| Power type | Steam |
|---|---|
| Designer | Stirling (rebuilt by Wainwright) |
| Builder | Neilson, Reid and Company (440-459) Ashford railway works (remainder) |
| Build date | built 1898-1899 rebuilt 1910-1927 |
| Total production | 28 |
| Configuration | 4-4-0 |
| Gauge | standard gauge |
| Driver size | 7' 0" |
| Locomotive weight | 45 tons 2 cwt |
| Fuel type | coal |
| Boiler pressure | 170 psi |
| Cylinders | two inside |
| Cylinder size | 18" x 26" |
| Tractive effort | 14,490 lbf |
The SECR B1 class was a class of 4-4-0 steam tender locomotive for express passenger service on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. These engines were originally designed by James Stirling for the South Eastern Railway (SER) in 1898 and designated B class. The SER was merged into the SECR in 1899 and, between 1910 and 1927 the B class engines were rebuilt with new boilers to become B1 class.
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[edit] Numbering
Nineteen B Class engines were built by Neilson, Reid and Company and numbered 440-459. A further 9 were built at the South Eastern Railway's Ashford railway works and given a jumble of numbers: 217, 13, 21, 101, 34, 17, 132, 186, 189. They kept these numbers under the SECR. When the Southern Railway took over in 1923 they initially gave the numbers an "A" prefix and later added 1000 to them. For example, 440 became A440 and then 1440 and 13 became A13 and then 1013. A few passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 and had 30000 added to their numbers but it is believed that only 31446 actually carried its number. All had been withdrawn by the end of 1951 and none is preserved.
[edit] Sources
- Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, 1949 edition, part 2, pp 18-20
[edit] External links
- http://www.semgonline.com/steam/b1(se)_class.html
- http://www.railuk.info/steam/getsteamclass.php?item=B-1
| Original NER class | New NER class | LNER Class | Cylinders | Driving wheels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | M | D17/1 | (2) 19" x 26" | 7' 1¼" |
| Q | - | D17/2 | (2) 19½" x 26" | 7' 1¼" |
| Q1 | - | D18 | (2) 19½" x 26" | 7' 7¼" |
| M | 3CC | D19 | HP (1) 19" x 26" LP (2) 20" x 24" |
7' 1¼" |
Walter Mackersie Smith (1842-1906) was a Scottish engineer who made an important contribution to the development of the compound steam locomotive. He was born at Ferry-Port on Craig, Scotland.
[edit] Career
He was apprenticed to an engineering company in Glasgow, worked for Neilson and Company for short time and then and then joined the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. Samuel W. Johnson was locomotive superintendent of the E&G at the time and the two became lifelong friends. Johnson moved to the Great Eastern Railway in 1866 and Smith moved with him.
In 1874, Smith became locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent for the Imperial Government Railways of Japan. He returned to Britain in 1883 and joined the North Eastern Railway where he eventually became chief draughtsman.
Smith's main contributions to locomotive design concerned the use of piston valves and compounding. The North Eastern Railway, under Thomas William Worsdell, was already using the two-cylinder Worsdell-von Borries compound system. Smith improved on this by developing a three-cylinder compound system with one high-pressure cylinder inside and two low-pressure cylinders outside.
[edit] Locomotives
The North Eastern Railway built only a small number of Smith's compound locomotives but the system had greater success on the Midland Railway under Samuel W. Johnson, Smith's old friend. Production of the Midland Railway 1000 Class began in 1902 and ran to 45 locomotives. The design was perpetuated in the LMS Compound 4-4-0 from 1924 and production ran to 195 locomotives.
[edit] Personal life
Smith died in 1906 while still working for the North Eastern Railway.
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[edit] Other
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This article describes Russian steam locomotives of the pre-Soviet and Soviet eras.
[edit] Class E
The Class E 0-10-0 was, for many years, the standard freight locomotive of the Soviet Union. Between 13,000 and 15,000 (estimates vary) were built between 1912 and 1952.
[edit] Josef Stalin
The Josef Stalin class was a 2-8-4 passenger locomotive. It was one of the first types in Russia to be fitted with a mechanical stoker.
[edit] Class IS
- Main article: Locomotive IS
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
- Reed, B., A Source Book of Locomotives, Ward Lock, 1976, ISBN 0 7063 1227 9
Category:Rail transport in Russia
