L&YR Class 30
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.
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Hoy locomotives
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 between 1911 and 1914. Crews referred to them as "Sea Pigs" which implies they were not well liked. [3]
Numbering
A total of 60 locomotives were built, all of which passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923. The LMS numbered them 12700-12759 and gave them the power classification 5F. By 1948, British Railways (BR) inherited only one surviving locomotive: LMS No. 12727 (L&YR No. 1433), which was renumbered 52727.[4]
Withdrawal
The first locomotive was withdrawn in 1926 and the last in 1950. None were preserved.
References
- 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.
- Barry C. Lane, Lancashire & Yorkshire Locomotives, p113, Pendragon Publishing, 2010
- Casserley, H.C.; Johnston, S.W. (1966). Locomotives at the Grouping, no.3, LMS. Ian Allan. p. 128.