L&YR Class 30
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The L&YR Class 30 was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The class was designed by John Aspinall and introduced in 1900.
Hoy locomotives
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Twenty of the class, built in 1903, were fitted with Henry Hoy's corrugated cylindrical steel firebox. This was not a great success (the internal flue deformed under steam pressure and water circulation was poor)[2] and they were later rebuilt with conventional boilers.
Numbering
A total of 60 locomotives was built and these passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923. The LMS numbered them 12700-12759 and gave them the power classification 5F. In 1948, British Railways (BR) inherited only 1 surviving locomotive. This was LMS 12727 (L&YR 1433 ) and BR numbered it 52727.[3]
Withdrawal
The first locomotive was withdrawn in 1926 and the last in 1950. None were preserved.
References
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- ↑ Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives; part 3 (1948 ed.). p. 44.
- ↑ Poultney, E.C. (June 1954). Cooke, B.W.C., ed. "An Unusual Boiler Design". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 100 no. 638. Westminster: Tothill Press. p. 397.
- ↑ Casserley, H.C.; Johnston, S.W. (1966). Locomotives at the Grouping, no.3, LMS. Ian Allan. p. 128.