Caledonian Railway 670 Class
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The Caledonian Railway
670 Class were freight 0-6-0
tender engines introduced in 1919 and designed by William Pickersgill
. The leading dimensions were identical to those of the 294 Class
introduced the previous year.
Six survived to be taken into British Railways stock in 1948 and were numbered 57684-57691 (with gaps).
The engines were classified 3F by the LMS
.
Caledonian Railway
The Caledonian Railway was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century and it was absorbed almost a century later into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, in the 1923 railway grouping, by means of the Railways Act 1921...
670 Class were freight 0-6-0
0-6-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-6-0 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles, and no trailing wheels...
tender engines introduced in 1919 and designed by William Pickersgill
William Pickersgill
William Pickersgill was born in Nantwich in 1861 and died in Bournemouth on 2 May 1928. He was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Caledonian Railway from 1914 until Grouping in 1923...
. The leading dimensions were identical to those of the 294 Class
Caledonian Railway 294 Class
The Caledonian Railway 294 Class were freight 0-6-0 tender engines introduced in 1918 and designed by William Pickersgill. Forty-three were built between 1918 and 1920. They were numbered 294–324, 280, 281, 670–679 by the Caledonian Railway...
introduced the previous year.
Six survived to be taken into British Railways stock in 1948 and were numbered 57684-57691 (with gaps).
Leading dimensions
- Weight: 50 tonsLong tonLong ton is the name for the unit called the "ton" in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements, as used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries. It has been mostly replaced by the tonne, and in the United States by the short ton...
13 cwt (52.5 t) - Boiler pressure: 180 lbf/in² (1.24 MPa)
- Two cylinders, 18.5″ × 26″ (47 × 66 cm)
- Driving wheel: 5′ 0″ (1.52 m)
- Starting tractive effort: 22,690 lbf (10,292 kgfKGFKGF may refer to:*Keratinocyte Growth Factor*King George's Fields A UK set of 471 memorial playing fields and recreation grounds*Kolar Gold Fields*The IATA code for Sary-Arka Airport, Karaganda, Kazakhstan...
, 100.93 kN)
The engines were classified 3F by the LMS
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railway companies into just four...
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