L&YR Class 30

For other uses, see L&YR Class 30 (disambiguation).
L&YR Class 30

LYR 0-8-0 Class 30 with standard Belpaire boiler
Type and origin
Power type Steam
Designer Aspinall
Build date 1900-1908
Total produced 60
Specifications
Configuration 0-8-0
Gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Driver dia. 4 ft 6 in (1.372 m)
Loco weight 53.8 long tons (54.7 t)
Fuel type Coal
Boiler pressure 175 psi (1.21 MPa)
Cylinders Two, inside
Cylinder size 20 in × 26 in (508 mm × 660 mm) [1]
Valve gear Joy
Performance figures
Tractive effort 28,644 lbf (127.4 kN)
Career
Operators L&YR, LMS, BR
Power class LMS 5F
Withdrawn 1929-1950
Disposition all scrapped

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

No. 114 built at Horwich with a cylindrical firebox, longer than the original type
footplate view of cylindrical firebox

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The first locomotive was withdrawn in 1926 and the last in 1950.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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  1. ↑ Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives; part 3 (1948 ed.). p. 44.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Casserley, H.C.; Johnston, S.W. (1966). Locomotives at the Grouping, no.3, LMS. Ian Allan. p. 128.
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