LB&SCR C class
C class No.96 in 1882
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| Type and origin | |
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| Power type | Steam |
| Designer | William Stroudley |
| Builder | LBSCR Brighton Works and Kitson & Co. |
| Build date | 1871–1874 |
| Specifications | |
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| Configuration: |
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| • Whyte | 0-6-0 |
| • UIC | Cn |
| Gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Driver dia. | 5 ft 0 in (1.524 m) |
| Wheelbase | 15 ft 3 in (4.65 m) |
| Length | 48 ft 7 in (14.81 m) |
| Total weight | 63.1 long tons (64.1 t; 70.7 short tons) |
| Fuel type | Coal |
| Fuel capacity | 6.5 long tons (6.6 t; 7.3 short tons) |
| Water cap | 2,520 imp gal (11,500 l; 3,030 US gal) |
| Firebox: • Firegrate area |
20.9 sq ft (1.94 m2) |
| Boiler pressure | 140 psi (9.65 bar; 0.97 MPa) |
| Heating surface: • Tubes |
1,312 sq ft (121.9 m2) |
| • Firebox | 101 sq ft (9.4 m2) |
| Cylinders | Two, inside |
| Cylinder size | 18 1⁄4 in × 26 in (464 mm × 660 mm) |
| Performance figures | |
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| Tractive effort | 18,400 lbf (81.85 kN) |
| Career | |
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| Withdrawn | 1901–1904 |
| Disposition | All scrapped |
The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) C class was a type of 0-6-0 freight steam locomotive designed by William Stroudley.
Four 0-6-0 locomotives were on order from Brighton works at the time that William Stroudley took over from John Chester Craven as Locomotive Superintendent in 1870. He cancelled this order and replaced it with another for two locomotives of his own design, Nos. 83 and 84 which appeared in December 1871. Eighteen further locomotives were constructed between March 1873 and November 1874, Nos. 77-82 by Brighton works and the remainder by Messrs. Kitson & Co.
The class were powerful locomotives for their time and the design was "an archetype for heavy goods engines in Scotland as well as Southern England," but in other respects were Stroudley's least successful design, suffering from poor steaming. Within a decade of their introduction the class was being replaced by his C1 class 0-6-0 design of 1882–87, on the heaviest trains. Nevertheless they proved to be reliable locomotives and survived for nearly thirty years on secondary freight duties. Members of the class were withdrawn between 1901 and 1904.
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